I have some questions ...

I've never been too good at coding a template but i've done plenty of other type of CSS coding and im a HTML master. I was wonder id it was possibly just to slice up the template and then just throw in the text, like my current layout www.eastcoast-designs.net, i mean it has always worked fine for me to do it that way. I'd really like to start coding my layouts instead of just selling the templates.

I also know some of the basics of slicing but i've been reading the how to slice a website page .. Also would it best to Slice then hand code or Slice and then bring into dreamweaver ?

also what would be the best slicing tutorials ?