Is this html or Flash?

[Mike Smith]

That page is essentially html. The one flash element I can see is the static, rotated image towards the bottom, by the latest engagement headline. You can also rotate images in Photoshop or any other image editor.

Software to use for web design, wow. That opens up a lot of preference questions.

You will need some kind of web layout software. Dreamweaver is Adobe’s current heavyweight offering and has its advocates, though it is pricey. This might start you off
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTML_editors
https://webdesign.about.com/od/htmleditors/HTML_Editors_Web_Page_Authoring_Tools.htm

Xara has a wysiwyg offering at which will allow you to design a page look as you like and produce more-or-less standards compliant outputs. Not free. https://webdesigner.xara.com/

Photoshop or Illustrator could be good for preparing graphics.

[Lisa Hurley]

Well, I’ve got Dreamweaver, and Photoshop, so I think I’m well-equipped for something of this nature…I just can’t quite figure out how they got the realistic looking magazine background look.

I’m trying to figure out how to accomplish getting that same magazine background. I’ve tried scanning magazine pages and working with them in photoshop, but I’ve not produced anything like this.

Hopefully I’ll figure this out…because I’d really like to use this look in a project I’m working on… If you have any ideas as to how I might best achieve this effect, please don’t keep it a secret!

Thanks so much for your help! Have a great day!
Lisa

[Mike Smith]

The key to the look is the big background image
https://www.jasminestarblog.com/images/toc/content-bg.jpg

which is 1450 wide by 1300 high. I think if you look at in photoshop you will see how you could make a version to suit your ends. A couple of gradients and maybe a line could produce a page-fold look. A pale grey background would give you room to use a whiter highlight area. You could blend in layers with text and images using semi-transparent masks …

Why not post us what you come up with ?

[Lisa Hurley]

Wow… that’s like revealing the key to Solomon’s Temple 🙂
Thanks.. that’s all I needed to get started… I’ll definitely keep ya’ll updated on the results 🙂
Sometimes, the answer to the question is right in front of your face the whole time…just needs the right person to reveal it 🙂

[Kelly Johnson]

a late entry here… yeah, css with background images is what you want. Then use css to position the content over the background in the areas it belongs.

Cool look.