PSD to CSS

Hey,

I was wondering: Do most of the designers here first make PSD designs then code them into CSS?

Personally, I've never understood slicing and stuff so I just design straight through xhtml/css and make something rough in photoshop for planning purposes.

i think most do, however, if a design is simple enough in my had and requires few/no images, then sometimes I will skip the PS element

I find slicing to be quite easy. I do it my way though. I just slap some slices here and there, then edit in dreamweaver and Bam!. Try it! Although it might appear messed up on dreamweaver on your first few tries.

My latest design is pretty simple and I did the whole thing as CSS, then made a simple background image for the header in PS after.

i've been hearing some good things about this http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder/ .
Not used it myself yet though

You can find out this what css hungers are doing with slicing layout, into CSS.

Well if you haven't used it and you are asking if it works...it does! I'm a photographer and I have been using Sitegrinder for building and updating my website http://www.jingziphotography.com I think it's a great tool for designers, photographers and folks who already have image editing softwares like photoshop elements or photoshop. You design your website in PS elements or PS and Sitegrinder will code for you. I find it very empowering since I can make website myself instead of paying someone to do it for me. Learning Sitegrinder is not hard but you do need to understand the concept and follow the rules.

Originally Posted by jimbob i've been hearing some good things about this http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder/ . Not used it myself yet though

Depends, find it's easier to plan it out in PS first then do the html/css side of things after.

I create a .psd first; to cut it up I use different methods depending on how complex it is.

Slicing works, but it's over complicated most of the time. It doesn't decide what should be a repeating image, so it still doesn't get you completely there. Plus tables suck

Sitegrider is decent, but not my cup of tea.

I generally use ctrl-shift-c to copy merged and get my images that way.