basic design for a website - graphics help

[Hondy]

Hi all

A basic question - when developing a website rich in graphics do you start with a program like photoshop and slice into a html page? I can write a site from basic html and I'm concious of writing standards based script but I want to make them more graphical.

I guess I'm asking, when designing a site should it start off in photoshop (or similar) or is that a bad way to do it?

Thanks

 

[Ascalonian]

Design the whole page in Photoshop, splice it up into it's own sections, remove the section where content will be going (dynamic or static) and adjust the HTML appropriately.

 

[Hondy]

Thanks Mikey

 

[Guthro]

Adobe(Macromedia)Fireworks is a web orientated graphics program. I know Photoshop is favoured by many but I think Fireworks actually has the advantage of being designed specifically with the web in mind.