ウェブサイト・デザインに変革をもたらすflash catalyst

thermoのコードネームで開発されていたadobeのflash catalystがまもなくリリースされる。flash catalystを使うとデザイナーがイラストレーターやフォトショップで作りこんだ画像のモックアップをウェブサイト上で実際に使えるインターフェイスとして自動的にコード変換してくれる。これまで需要のあったデザイナーから受け取ったウェブサイトのデザインモックアップをコードに書き起こすコーダーの仕事はかなり専門的でこれができれば不景気の時期にも食い扶持に困らないと言われていた。これからはノン・コーダーもたいした知識なしにRIAを利用したユーザー・インターフェイスを作ることができることから、ウェブサイト・デザインのワークフローに大きな変化をもたらすだろう。

Flash Catalyst is a very impressive application that allows designers to import a UI created in another Adobe CS tool, such as Photoshop or Illustrator, and then automagically writes the MXML code to make the interface work. The application can take a layered graphic from Photoshop, for example, and a designer can use Flash Catalyst's "Convert artwork to" function to turn mockups of buttons, scroll bars, and text inputs into actual, functional UI elements, with the underlying code all ready to go.

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/11/17/adobe-debuts-flash-catalyst-at-max-conference/

Today I'm going to take you through my entire process of getting from Photoshop to completed HTML. We're going to build out a set of 4 PSD mockups of a website that eventually will become a WordPress theme. It's a massive tutorial, so if you're going to follow through to the end, make sure you have a few hours to spare!

http://nettuts.com/site-builds/from-psd-to-html-building-a-set-of-website-designs-step-by-step/

Another one of the more popular skills needed is converting Photoshop files (PSD) to XHTML files for template use. Because designers don't always know how to convert Photoshop layouts into template files, a CSS and XHTML ninja can always find work. Because of the array of browsers now in common use and the niggling differences in how they render sites, you want to be a web developer who can build-out sites that display the same in any browser. This kind of design to code service is the most sought after of them all.

http://nettuts.com/articles/10-most-sought-after-skills-in-web-development/