Setek - 3:47 am on Nov 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

I thought using Photoshop or Fireworks with slices and complex tables was highly discouraged among professional web organizations.Do people still do this?

Are you talking about using a design in Photoshop, making slices, and using its automated generator to make the HTML code? Because yes, that is highly discouraged, anything that automatically generates code like this is bound to create bloated, bad code, but yes, I'm sure people still do this.

What I was referring to was merely people doing the design itself in a program such as Photoshop, then I would manually cut out the images I'd require, and code the HTML and CSS myself.

Don't most pros even reject using Dreamweaver, etc.

I still use Dreamweaver - it has nice code-completion (if you type <li> it chucks in </li> for you), and code-colouring.

It also has fairly nice find-and-replace functionality, being able to search for specific tags, with specific attributes, and changing the attribute value associated to it.

It depends on how you use Dreamweaver - if you use it in Design mode you're obviously using bloated HTML & CSS created by Dreamweaver, but if you use it to hand-code I don't see a problem.