That’s what happens when I get in a hurry!

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Yes you are clear. I agree that the old school way of slicing and then placing a full page of “Pieces” into an HTML document is obsolete with CSS now taking the place of tables.

I still slice individual graphics to be placed into my pages using CSS, and that works great. For instance if you need a stylized box with rounded corners or some type of graphic design inserted into your page, you simply slice it up and use the graphic sections that cannot be rendered in CSS to complete your design.

However, most of the page can now be rendered with CSS Styling instead of millions of little pieces, and it makes for a much smaller, cleaner, and faster loading page.

As far as updating your images/slices, it’s much easier to do when your whole page doesn’t rely on sliced puzzle pieces. You can modify only the images/graphics you need to update without disturbing the rest of the layout.

Best.

Perhaps I was not being clear enough in my article; when I am talking about image slicing I am talking about create a enter page based on sliced images that are then reassembled in the web page.

From my article:

“These pieces were then cut out (using the selection tool + copy) and saved as individual images (gif’s for solid color, jpg’s for continuous tone – photographs) where you would reassemble the pieces in an HTML table.”

For individual images, you may need to use the selection tool in Photoshop to ‘cut’ it out for insertion into a web page … that is clear and acceptable.

Again, I am talking about the old practice of creating entire page layouts with sliced images.

Hope that clears things up.

Stefan

Wonder what CSS you used to create this image? Point taken.
http://www.killersites.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/psd-to-web1.gif

I love this site by the way, just found it and I think its great.

But I guess at the end of the day, each website has a purpose doesnt it? So if the website meets its objectives of Generating revenue or create branding or whatever else its supposed to do, then why does it matter whether or not the images are sliced?

Strictly speaking the standpoint of using CSS to lay out the site is the most advanced way to create a functional website with the most control.

As a website designer, you need to pick your battles. Do you really need to go the extra mile (and sometimes you do) or will a slice and text over in tables (which displays just fine) suffice?

If I understand your question, yes it is true.

i prefer to call myself a beginner in web design. Just have a little query in mind, hope the experts out there can help me with the answer.

Is it true that if you go about the method of converting slices into creating .html page, hard to update (as i think) in the sense that if you need to change a property of a certain slice (component)….lets say, the size, then one has to go back to do the whole slicing process again after changing the size of that particular component??? because…otherwise, the components wont fit in the puzzle if the page is not sliced again. Is this true?
I use CSS to layout my page in dreamweaver, which makes it much easier for updating design components, however, i always had this question in mind about converting slices directly because for me web design using photoshop and dream weaver is a self study through research. I always created sites using Flash previously.

appreciate your time and hope to get some help.
thanks

“We are discussing a whole page in Photoshop being converted to a web page, not an image in Photoshop being cut up and made a web page element.”

Cutting out an image to insert is fine; it is the whole page conversion thing that sucks.

Stefan