FTFA: "In the past we’ve put up with Photoshop because it was vital to achieving our beloved rounded corners, drop shadows, outer glows, and gradients."
No. Drawing tools beat markup because it's usually faster to draw (and redraw) a layout than to work out the markup. More so if you are looking for a very particular arrangement.
Working right in HTML it's easy to get stuck in a design because you can't quite figure out how to make something look just so. You tend to use the markup that's most familiar.
One risk to using a graphics tool: if you're busy with the rounded corners, drop shadows, outer glows, and gradients you end up with a design that is near impossible to accurately achieve with markup. Better to treat Photoshop as a robust set of pencil and paper you can save to disk.
No. Drawing tools beat markup because it's usually faster to draw (and redraw) a layout than to work out the markup. More so if you are looking for a very particular arrangement.
Working right in HTML it's easy to get stuck in a design because you can't quite figure out how to make something look just so. You tend to use the markup that's most familiar.
One risk to using a graphics tool: if you're busy with the rounded corners, drop shadows, outer glows, and gradients you end up with a design that is near impossible to accurately achieve with markup. Better to treat Photoshop as a robust set of pencil and paper you can save to disk.