Hand Coding?

I keep hearing a lot about it, but I haven't the foggiest clue on how to do it with a template made in Photoshop. I used to make pure HTML sites, but now I'm a little rusty. Is there a site that could help me learn how to handcode a template?

It is just meaning you write the code yourself rather then taking the tables generated and images generated by photoshop. So you code in all the tables/divs needed yourself, so that they actually do what you want rather then having spacer.gifs everywhere.

Down with GUIs.. You can't provide the world with your best if you don't relay on your own experience and skills. GUI based programs can only go so far.. And they design stuff the way they were designed to design it--not how the designer using the design program wishes to design it. ( )

You're thinking WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) rather than GUI (graphical user interface) I believe.

Actually, most of the software for designers today allows you pretty much any range you desire. Photoshop has it's limitations, but illustrator doesn't and nor does corel 12. I use dreamweaver myself simply because it integrates well with the rest of the macromedia family as well as the adobe domination. Well, for web coding. as for design I use a mix of phtoshop for ..you guessed it.... photos mainly because I don't like the way it eats up my space with useless files. I use illustrator and corel for the graphics and put it all together with my little dreamweaver. Sure, you can sit for hours coding by hand so to speak, but why? You can get a result that is equal to if not better by using a prog such as dreamweaver. Plus it cuts down on code errors and having to hunt for the error. Of course this is just my opinion and i have lots of them.

Originally Posted by graphicsguru You can get a result that is equal to if not better by using a prog such as dreamweaver.

no, you really can't.

Originally Posted by dereklapp no, you really can't.

I agree. Perhaps with basic HTML, but I have YET to find a program that can handle the coding of PHP, CSS, XML, or java. Learning to do things for yourself enables you to have a greater range of what you can and cannot do, as well as increase your ability to find errors and optimize your work.

Hmm... I guess I should give it a shot.

Originally Posted by graphicsguru Sure, you can sit for hours coding by hand so to speak, but why? You can get a result that is equal to if not better by using a prog such as dreamweaver. Plus it cuts down on code errors and having to hunt for the error.

I have to say I disagree with everything I have quoted above

Dreamweaver adds sloppy, unwanted tags to your page.

depending on your ablities, you might be able ot get faster results, but i stil diagree the quality can be reaosnably comared.

the design itself it half the battle, but in my experience, most people fall back on things like DW to code for them because the designs aren't structurally sound and handcoding would be a horrible mess.