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To all the naysayers out there who say QuarkXpress is not a web design program. I am a print designer using QuarkXpress for the past 15 years and needed to provide an online portfolio to potential clients. It took a few weeks of frustration before I was able to figure it out. I just needed something real basic and QuarkXpress web features worked great. I've already updated my site a few times with extreme ease. www.hummel4design.com

Hi, I'm the same as you, I was doing graphic design with quark for 15 years and decided I needed a website so I spent pretty much the whole weekend awake and taught myself web design, since then I have mastered pretty much all of it except the forms, I need someone to teach me how to script them urgently. Since learning web design with quark I have produced dozens of websites for my customers. Your site is great, only thing I noticed was that when you rollover an image it shows you the file name with .png etc, when you insert a picture go to 'item' and 'modify', click on the export tab and go down to the 4th line and delete the text (which will be the file name) or insert some new text so this will apear as a caption when someone rolls over the image instead of the original file name.

Georgina

Thanks Georgina. I've made fixes and tried it out. It works.

Thats okay, I'm glad I could help!

Really nice website Gary. I have been trying to do the same thing for the same reason. After having made my living with my bleoved Quark (4.1) for 17 years stepping into Q8 is daunting. (the last year I've worked in CS3) I'm finding I am totally lost and frustrated with the web building so far as I can't even understand the directions in the pdf help manual. What did you study to learn this Georgina? I'm thinking a sample web template would have been nice to be included like Illustrator does. Then I would be able to see how it's set up and the links and palettes and such. Anyone know of one I can use? I've searched everywhere to no avail...

I created website using QXP 7.5. In the beginning it was difficult to understand the concept. After many attempts I was finally able to figure it out. I've since updated website many times and am finally satisfied with it for now. It's not that different from creating a print document. Trial and error will result in you understanding how it's done. You will say to yourself later, "that was easy". Just keep trying. www.hummel4design.com

Hi, sorry, just found your message.

I am self taught. i did media studie at college (92-94) but that was with coreldraw and pagemaker, I was given quark many years ago and just taught myself to use it for DTP. 3 years ago when I wanted a website I decided they were too expensive so I spent the weekend teaching myself with google! i typed in HTML, found out what it meant and then other words which i came across until i understood websites a bit, then I made a blank document in quark and just messed around working my way through the tool bars and menus working out what each one did and if i got stuck then i googled it. My first sites were rubbish but now they get better all the time. i have just finished a 250 page website with a search engine and contact forms and shopping cart etc which im really pleased with, except today i discovered they look terrible in firefox (thanks for that Quark). But I seem to be spending a lot of time in notepad lately, once a site is exported i have to go to notepad to add the code to center the pages, add paypal, add site counters, edit the form code, create php codes for the forms and search etc and im back to being out of my depth and searching google all the time. if you need a template for something i can knock you up one, or if you need advice then just ask. I'm no expert compared to web programmers and no good with complex codes but do okay in quark. my email is production@trumandesigns.co.uk if you want any help. Georgina

Great looking site. I've totally green at using Quark for web design but like you have been a print designer for 20+ years. Using version 7.2 I'm not getting very far as the program crashes every time I try to create a basic rollover (drat!). Wish I could have you give me a tutorial.

I suggest a visit to the Quark company website. There you'll find comprehensive tutorials for download in Quark 8 template form and also PDF (if you're working on an earlier version of Quark). But better still, buy a book! I did and it got me up and running straight away... no trial and error period. The book I bought (through Amazon) was QuarkXPress 6 for Print and Web Design by Michael Baumgardt. It is superbly designed and dead easy to follow. I don't know if he has updated the book for newer versions of Quark but I doubt if that would matter anyway since the principles are exactly the same. The book is 346 pages and about half is dedicated to print and half to web design. It's an inspirational book. Incidentally I rang the author one night from Melbourne Australia (his number was in the book) when I was struggling with Quark's gif animation and left him a message. A few minutes later he phoned back even though it was 2am in New York. No, I didn't wake him, he was working! He was extremely helpful. I've created quite a few websites using Quark since then. Here are a few if you're interested: http://www.masterclassart.com http://www.gasco.net.au http://www.casuarinavillas.com.au Cheers, John

Wayheeeeeyyyyyy! OK. I'm a quark user since 3.1, I think it was 1989 / 90. So I'm one of the older guys! So, it may seem bonkers, but I've just realised you can design websites in Quark 8 ! Wow. Not than I CAN design websites, but it's encouraging if one can build professional websites (? REALLY? ) in quark, quite EASILY? Hmmm, I must spend a w/end on it and see; Encouragement please..... :)

I've been happily using Quark since 2.0 and literally jumped on Quark 6.0’s Web and interactive tools just as quickly as I jumped on Quark's earliest Bezier tools to illiminate Illustrator from my daily frustrations. The first website that I built was a 750-page labor of love made while recovering from a massive stress-related heart attack: http://moyssi.com . It is inelegant and overdone without much thought to making money, but it certainly proves that you can build a big complex site in Quark. My first significant site (made with Quark 6.5) for a client was http://vicleakdetection.com. Still clunky, but it quadrupled site visitation over its predecessor overnight. I take credit or blame for everything you see except the "What's new" page which my customer has tampered with and  it corrupts in some browsers including Firefox. Btw, I find that Firefox on a Mac fairly predicts any issues that will arise in IE.

Building websites in Quark is everything that it's not in Creative Suite: fast, intuitive, simple. That makes it fun.Hop to it!