Using Dreamweaver, you can create beautiful, fully functional Web sites (and post them to the Web) through an easy-to-use graphical interface—without ever writing a line of code. Well, almost. – Piper Nilsson, Sessions instructor.

I’m a great fan of Dreamweaver.  I use it almost every day.  I find it an extremely efficient tool for allowing me to take my Web designs from paper to software to live site.

One of the features that Dreamweaver offers that is especially useful for designers is the Tracing Image feature. Imagine that you’ve just created a sensational Web page design, only you created it in Photoshop. Your text is in the middle of your design, and you need to somehow turn your vision into a functional Web page. Instead of painstakingingly cutting your design apart, you can use it as a Tracing Image in Dreamweaver.

Here’s the Sessions.edu Home page used as a Tracing Image in Dreamweaver.
Notice the layers drawn on top of it. (caption?)

Using Dreamweaver’s graphical web design interface, you can view your image and literally draw HTML tables and layers on top of your design image, precisely where you need them!