Can I draw a website in InDesign?

Question

Adobe

Hello, is it possible to draw websites in InDesign ? If yes, then tell me something, introductory information, manuals and everything that may be needed. Thank you very much in advance.

Answer 1

And why do you want to use a program tailored for printing layout when building layouts for the web? Undoubtedly, she has a wonderful thing - Pages, but that's all.
Adobe has a program they bought some time ago in the package with the same cool layout capability. This is Fireworks. Created for web layout, which is almost perfect in it. Even the total work of designers with Photoshop is not a hindrance. There is a misunderstanding of some filters when opening PSD in Fireworks.
And your version is exotic. For website layout, InDesign will do, although there are all kinds of Mockups for sketches, and for prototyping there is Visual Studio and various Azure.
For image processing, you will still use Photoshop (and rightly so, because InDesign is only for layout).
From Adobe:
Web: Fireworks + Photoshop (+ Illustrator for SVG)
Print: InDesign + Photoshop
Video: Premiere + AfterEffects + Photoshop

Answer 2

You need to use programs for what they are intended for.
I doubt you will find any information. You can use Photoshop to draw sites, sometimes you can use Dreamweaver, but I don’t know where there is a need for it at all.
And modern design has reached the point where you almost never draw and you don’t need anything. For example, in the design of Toaster (and Habr) there are no elements where a graphic editor could be useful. And this is the future!

Answer 3

InDesign would be very convenient with its grids, typography and work with styles, if it weren’t for problems with scale, 100% scale is displayed there 1.5 times larger than it really is, and I didn’t find how to solve this problem anywhere, I had to transfer everything in illustrator (tried in CS6)

Answer 4

Adobe has a nice successor to inDesign - Adobe Muse. In it, you can not only draw sites, but also make working prototypes and even simple sites. Much of Muse comes from inDesign.

Answer 5

In Indesign, sites are not drawn, but typeset (graphically, not in html). Indiz is like a CMS - a website is assembled in it. If the site is small, then indiz is more difficult to mess with, and if we have 50-100-200 pages with different individual content (text, graphics), then its ability to handle such a volume is very useful. Pixel alignment and scale are configured via scripts.
It is also useful for teamwork of several designers and a copywriter at the same time.
The link has already been given, but it is not superfluous to repeat: www.ivanya.ru/indesign