Aha! I see!

Over the past few weeks I have been trying to find the best way to develop a website which is graphically pleasing. Last night, after much googling and following useless links, I finally ulocked the full potential of Photoshop as a webpage development tool. For a long time now, I have never really understood what the slice tool was for, but as of 8pm last night my life changed in a whole new way! No longer do I need to sit down and meticulously measure out the dimensions of a website in Dreamweaver, instead I can now head straight to developing the visual format, slice it up in Photoshop using the slice tool, bring it into Dreamweaver to add links and other functions, and wolah! One complete website ready to go! The only thing you need to watch using this technique is firstly, make sure you save your webpage as a layered Photoshop image as well as a website. Secondly, once you set the slices in photoshop DO NOT CHANGE THEM, otherwise you will find you will have to export your website all over again if you want to change or update it. Despite all that, it is certainly a great way to design a page, especially if you want to maintain its graphical layout as developed by you for a reason!I have not tried it with dynamic elements like Flash and Video as yet, so I am not sure how easy this is to implement but I will let you all know later down the track how I get on with this.