Adobe Master Collection

[G4_Music]

Hi,

My brother bought me Adobe Master collection. I wan't to get a Web Site going. E commerce at that. I have no idea of what to do. Should I sign up with a Web Host? If so, what web host would be best for me since I have Adobe Master Suite? Will I be able to use Adobe Master Suite? Should I even bother learning Adobe Master Suite? Some one please help. Thanks in advance.

G4_Music

 

[radhak]

Hi,

My brother bought me Adobe Master collection. I wan't to get a Web Site going. E commerce at that. I have no idea of what to do. Should I sign up with a Web Host? If so, what web host would be best for me since I have Adobe Master Suite? Will I be able to use Adobe Master Suite? Should I even bother learning Adobe Master Suite? Some one please help. Thanks in advance.

G4_Music

That's a bit like my brother lent me his spray-paint gun, and I want to set up a lemonade stand, what do I do? Barely relate-able issues.

If this is a serious question, then I'd just say, keep that Adobe disk aside and worry about your website - what you wanna do with it, and how. Your Adobe software might be useful to you one day, you never know. Or maybe not.

 

[colonelciller]

Hi G4,

Adobe Master collection could easily be all anyone needs to put together a great website. The programs that Master Collection includes that would directly help you most are:

*Dreamweaver -Helps you write the code side of your website, makes it easy to upload files to your server, you can even do drag and drop editing within Dreamweaver.
*Photoshop - Creating visual elements for your website, working with images, etc.
*Illustrator - For designing vector-based artwork for your website
*Flash Professional -if you want to incorporate custom flash-based design elements

Now ask yourself these questions:
*Do you know how to use any of those programs already?
*How quickly do I want to get a website up and running?

If the answer is "no" to the 1st question, and "soon" to the 2nd question, then my suggestion to you is to put the Master Collection on the back-burner and instead visit some websites that take care of the heavy-lifting for you. I have no experience with these but here is one as an example.

http://www.shopify.com/

Lastly, you have photoshop... learn it... it is very useful, powerful. Find some tutorials, youtube has tons! There are also great tutorials on Lynda.com. Good luck.

 

[bononos]

That's a bit like my brother lent me his spray-paint gun, and I want to set up a lemonade stand, what do I do? Barely relate-able issues.

If this is a serious question, then I'd just say, keep that Adobe disk aside and worry about your website - what you wanna do with it, and how. Your Adobe software might be useful to you one day, you never know. Or maybe not.

A $2300 spray paint gun, what a generous brother indeed.

 

[rivan]

Now ask yourself these questions:
*Do you know how to use any of those programs already?
*How quickly do I want to get a website up and running?

If the answer is "no" to the 1st question, and "soon" to the 2nd question, then my suggestion to you is to put the Master Collection on the back-burner and instead visit some websites that take care of the heavy-lifting for you. I have no experience with these but here is one as an example.

http://www.shopify.com/

Lastly, you have photoshop... learn it... it is very useful, powerful. Find some tutorials, youtube has tons! There are also great tutorials on Lynda.com. Good luck.

Spot on.

The learning curve, from zero, to being able to produce anything useful with those applications is not insignificant.