Creating Rounded Corner Layouts (image slices)

I went through the tutorial modifying the PNG files to create new background slices for customized rounded corner layouts. I was wondering about the practice of creating a slice that contains the bottom portion of a div with the top portion of the one below it.

Is this how it's normally done? Would there be a problem with making two divs and using two slices - one for the bottom, the other for the top? I know that the first example only requires a single div, but perhaps using two would allow more flexibility. Thoughts?

I can't think of any reason why that wouldn't work. You could incorporate the bottom slice into the footer div.

Either way will work like you said. Combining the bottom portion and top portion into a single graphic allows a few less divs to be used. You could make them separate divs though and it will work just fine. Its more flexible to use separate divs if you ever want to add something between the 2 sections at a later time.

-justin

Thank you for the replies and confirmation. That let's me know that I'm starting to get the hang of this. I'm actually building three sites at the moment, all in different stages and I'm making use of the various library extensions - so far so good.

I came across a free extension out there that when applied to a div or image, it seemed to just apply small rounded slices for the corners only plus alot of other stuff. Very confusing. These methods here are way better.

Thanks again!