Do You Slice Your Sites First?

Hi,

We're having a discussion at the office. We're trying to decide what most people do:
- Slice their design in Photoshop and develop from there
- Use the visual design as an example and code it from nothing
- Other..

 

Anyone who uses Photoshop to slice their design and use that code is either lazy, inexperienced or incompetent.

 

Code it normally by hand, and crop images off the PSD file when needed.

 

To be honest I'm not a fan of Photoshop slice tool and I find it easier selecting the object I need and saving it as image, it takes less time which means - WINNING.

 

Slicing sucks, I just save the images I need and hand code.

 

I use only css. I don't use image, because I don't care about IE8 and lower version.

 

I choose other
In my case I just select a specific CMS theme appropriate to the site I am making.
Then replace the image resources and CSS as needed later on.

 

Surely it's not fare to group the inexperienced with the lazy and incompetent (because they have much to learn), but I'd say "Anyone experienced who uses Photoshop to slice their design and use that code is either lazy or incompetent".

Personally, I think it depends on the situation - there are times when a little slice can save a lot of hassel so I won't write it off completely, but generally coding from nothing is much better for load times, geek factor and overall satisfaction

 

code it by hand. slicing from photoshop is pretty old way of creating html. but those who dont know html and css still making pages by slicing.

 

Just because you are inexperienced does not excuse one for using Photoshop to slice.

 

Maybe im just old fashioned like that but i write it on my own from scratch.