program to upload photoshop designed pages?

I am in the process of learning to use Photoshop to design a web site. I have frequented various sites and tried many tutorials with not too unsatisfactory results. A thanks goes out to all of those who have submitted them to be followed. They have been incredibly helpful and usefull thus far.

My confusion is this. I have no idea how to actually code in HTML, and the site I have set up is for my running coach. To get something up and going, I designed it in Frontpage. While that is satisfactory for her tastes, I realized very quickly that it is way too basic looking and using photoshop, I could make it a thousand times better. I have built what I would consider as my new "home" page look in photoshop, but I have no idea how to actually send it to the site so that it will work (do I send as layers one at a time or as one big piece, etc). I have been uploading the Frontpage pages thru CuteFTP. While I understand how to create a "web structure" to upload things to in Frontpage, I have no idea how to go about it using Photoshop (or whether I should actually be using Imageready or what ever), and how to actually send it too(do i get it all looking the way I want and then "generate html" or what?). I have purchased three or four photoshop books, but this must be a pretty no brainer thing, because I have found little to no help what so ever regarding this particular part. Is there somewhere someone could point me (like a tutorial) to so that I can learn some of these aspects of "web design and building"?

What do most of you feel is better to be using for how to break up and send your images to be viewed on the net? While I do figure CuteFTP is completely capable of uploading information for photoshop, I have no idea how to actually prepair an image to make it uploadable. I really wish I could sit down over someone's shoulder and watch the process, since I am completely in the dark here and have no idea how to proceed. I have managed to get access to Adobe Go Live 6 and Adobe Live Motion 2.0, but know even less about them, but figured maybe I should mention that I have access to them if needed.

I am also looking to create a secondary part to the site that will have a "members only" access and two forums, one for each side of the site. Do any of you have a suggestion as to what you might recommend as a good board to use (without dropping alot of money). My site only supports ASP, Perl, and PHP (and here too, I am completely a newbie and will be needing to do much research to setup and run it correctly).

Suggestions, Comments, Advice? (besides getting a gun)

Thank you. Any help is appreciated.

well lets see there are many ways you can do this.. but the easiest would probably being transfering it to image ready and cutting the image you have into slices (with the slice tool) then creating an image map (with image map tool) all of those are pretty self explanatory. not to difficult. yet it can be kind of tricky. if you dont know what im talking about just reply here again and ill try to go into detail for you.

Hello Andretti,

I just got your info. I was awake till about 6am last night and I just got up now (sigh). I am planning on integrating music controls onto my site today.

I will get back to you via email later today. I hope I can help somehow, I know all about your frustrations.

Oh do you have your site up somewhere? I am just curious because my site is in flash and it is a little different than exporting for just a straight html page.

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AstroBoy

Check out a demo of GoLIve from Adobe, it is similiar to Dreamweaver but is probably a little simpler for those with absolutely no knowledge of HTML. It also intergrates with Photoshop seamlessly as it takes native PSD files without the need for messing around with slices.

You can take a fully layered PSD and import it into GoLive, it will also give you the opportunity to compress your image sizes. The real beauty is in it's use of DIV tags and DHTML for positioning elements.