Division of Labor

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The next step was to decide who would do what. One of the first priorities was getting the graphics done. First the illustrations in FreeHand needed to be done, because most of the site relies on these. The authors decided that the logo and vectors for the e-cards would be done in FreeHand, not only because FreeHand has the most robust vector capabilities but because Ron Rockwell is a fantastic illustrator. He also did the layout for the business cards, brochures, and a few cartoon-type movies.

Joyce Evans was responsible for making the e-cards, adding sound, and preparing the Flash assets for the site. For the most part, she used the vectors that Ron had drawn instead of making new drawings in Flash, not because Flash is inferior but because she's not an artist. Doug Sahlin then incorporated the e-cards into a Flash interface, which connects to ColdFusion (Charles Mohnike wrote the ColdFusion section). Charles Mohnike did the ColdFusion coding of the e-cards and Doug did the Flash remoting.

Joyce was responsible for preparing all additional graphics in Fireworks (supplied by the client and Donna), optimizing, slicing, and exporting. The files also had to be exported into the proper folders for use in Dreamweaver to facilitate round-trip editing. Because of the book the authors did, at times, do things several different ways. For instance, the rollovers were created in Dreamweaver, but the authors show you how to do them in Fireworks as well as how to insert that code directly in a Dreamweaver layout.

Donna did the layout in Dreamweaver. She had direct contact with the client and she did the actual mockups of the site. Charles recommended using only one server technology, which of course was ColdFusion. But the authors also wanted to show you how you could connect to a database by using ASP. So as an alternative Donna shows you how to build an administrator section using ASP and an Access database to manage a contacts list. A newsletter was also developed and would be deployed using ColdFusion.

Charles was responsible for connecting all the dynamic data using ColdFusion. The newsletter, e-cards, petition, and shopping cart are all powered by ColdFusion. Only the e-cards are covered in this book.

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