Question on Design and Photoshop

Just to get an idea of how many people do their design this way. How many people design there site in Photoshop and then transfer it to Dreamweaver to place the text, tables, CSS, etc.?

 

Not I. I hand-slice and hand-code everything. WYSIWYGs seem to generate a lot of clutter in the code.

Just my $0.02

 

Clarify what you mean by "hand-slice" everything. I am just trying to see the benefits of designing the entire page in Photoshop, slicing it in Image Ready, and then putting it into tables in Dreamweaver, and creating separate images and then putting them into tables in Dreamweaver.

I am not knocking either way, I just want to see what others are doing.

 

I design in Photoshop and slice it up myself. Spitting it out of Photoshop or Illustrator in slices creates cluttery code, as ninjamuk said. I know, because I used to do it until I realized the error of my ways! You don't want to be using tables at all. Only CSS.

 

How do you slice it up yourself without using ImageReady or a similar program? I normally take the slices and manipulate htm to my liking once they are in Dreamweaver, but enlighten me as to your ways.

Thanks.

 

Well, the slicing isn't really the issue, it's how you get the files into DW. If you let PS/DW make the code for you then you're going to get a lot of nasty, needless, nested tables (that sounded awesome, lol). I would HIGHLY recommend learning to build a page in DW from scratch using only the 'coder view'. It's worth it to learn because then you can do so much more is much less time.

 

I know HTML and can build a site from scratch using Notepad, but find it much easier to slice it in ImageReady and move it over. Maybe I will try to build the tables myself with the images from PS. Nobody needs nasty, needless, nested tables.

 

I get the designs in Photoshop and then manually cut pieces and use XHTML, CSS, and PHP to design the site.

 

Like LeetPCUser, I manually cut pieces using the selection tool and the save them in an optimized version and put them together in the code in Dreamweaver by using CSS to design the site. I rarely use tables.

 

You should, however, try to avoid tables when you can. Imageready will give you a ton of tables.