Do people still do this?

[Aruffell]

I remember that when i dabbled with websites around 5 years ago, there were a few designers who made sites in photoshop and the like, sliced them up, added hot spot links and turned these "images" into html sites.

Is this still done now or is it developed in html editing software, and images added when and where?

Thanks,

Andy

 

[Russinating]

It's still done, usually always, but it's spliced and coded in CSS rather than into tables now.

 

[Aruffell]

So this is the norm for actually making a whole site now?

Andy

 

[nav...]

it depends.

how long is a piece of string.

give me one design and I'll do it one way, give me another and it will be different

 

[Inquisitor]

So this is the norm for actually making a whole site now?

Andy

Not in my experience, but like nav said it depends on the design and who's doing it.

 

[PMWD]

We've been asked to advise on a poorly performing site created about a year ago that uses tables for layout and white images to space things!

 

[dave-lew99]

I think these days that using tables for layout is considered 'old hat' and that a CSS/<div> style is preferred as it is far more flexible than simple tables.

I've seen sites designed in photoshop then given to a coder to write the CSS/template for, but normally i'd only use the required images (banners etc, maybe links at a push if they are special) but the rest is CSS

 

[Paradiso]

I've only done one site like this, many years ago when I first started mucking about with web design.

Now I tend to mock up a site in photoshop to get the general layout of things and then re-create create it in entirely in CSS. I really dont use a lot of big images anymore anyway, unless its a product photo, so tend to stick to CSS colouring or stretched single pixel gifs for pattern/gradients.

 

[mosfet]

Nearly all designers' workflows will involve a mock-up in photoshop, chopped up and scripted with css and html.

Using tables for alignment is not only old-fashioned, but wrong as far as the W3C spec is concerned, and should never be used for laying out pages.