How do you use your CodeIgniter

[eluser]artie11[/eluser]
I'm brand new to Codeigniter, however have been programming for years. I've gotten the hang of it right away, however i'm finding i'm still slow until i've learnt which functions to use when instead of writing code.

The real question is how does everyone use their codeigniter, For instance i'm using the html table class to display records from a database + a loop to add an extra column into the array with the links to the view/edit pages.

How do you create your view and edit pages. Do you create the page in dreamweaver or the like and then just insert the variables where needed.

Is there any special modules to create the forms from a database to update/insert.

Alot of frameworks include ways to create insert/update/delete pages easily

Other than that any trick people think would be good. I've gotten mine going quite happily with a header and footer view, so i can wrap the content in templates.

Regards,
aRTie11