I designed my first ever website in photoshop. It was just a simple page with some text. I remember slicing the images (page borders) to be used as a background. We also had to actually learn visual design at that time - shadows, gradients - all that since none of it was handled by css.
Once I learned the basics of photoshop I started designing websites for PC games I played. Of course this was just for hobby but it was fun and I wanted to see what’s possible. Naturally those websites looked like the game HUDs (display areas where you see your stats and stuff). Web design was the most fun at that time.
I never spent too much time in Dreamweaver since by then I was hand-coding css and had no need for Dreamweaver. This lasted until Bootstrap came out many years later and I no longer needed to hand code css from scratch.
Just reminiscing about the old days …
