[jameszxcv]

hi all
well ive just started going into website making, ive learned (x)html and little css so far. my question is ive read from people on this forum that you shouldnt use photoshop to slice up files, so how do you do it. im very new this and dont really get how it all works at the moment, im learnign how to use photoshop at the moment as well.
well hope that kinder makes sense
thanks

[skyrocket]

Everyone has their own method of working but at some stage everyone will have to use an image editor of some kind during the web design process. Photoshop is arguably the most widely used and popular tool. You can also use Fireworks and The Gimp and you could even throw in stuff like Paintshop and Picasa. Photoshop is a tool in the process like a saw and drill is to a person building a house. If you were following that analogy you could say that XHTML is the foundations and frame of the house, CSS is the roof, window frames, guttering, paint and even the christmas lights (blinking ones?!).

[bender]

Originally Posted by jameszxcv

my question is ive read from people on this forum that you shouldnt use photoshop to slice up files,

I haven't seen anything like that mentioned in this forum.
I think you must mean drawing a website in photoshop and then cutting the picture up and just piecing the puzzle up in html. Now that is bad practise.
Be more precise next time for a more precise answer.

[jameszxcv]

it may not have being said in them words, but like you shouldn’t use photo shop to slice because it gives you lots of unwanted html with it, or something like that.
“I think you must mean drawing a website in photo shop and then cutting the picture up and just piecing the puzzle up in html. Now that is bad practice”
so what is the way to make a website?
I thought it was like making the layout parts, logo, pictures and whatever else slicing the files up, then use css to put the pieces back together to lay them out how you intend them to look.
As you can probably tell I don’t really know what I am talking about