Help With Dreamweaver 8

by cashtech29

Posted: 15 years ago 12 replies

WEB DESIGN

Hello all.
I am looking for someone that can help me with a Dreamweaver 8 question.
I am trying to complete my site and when ever I try to view it online
some of the layers are out of whack, usually they are a lot longer than what I made them in my editor.
and it messes up the whole page.
The layer that I have my text in, stops right where it should in my editor
but when I view online, the text stops where it is supposed to but the layer and background color keep going on and on...

Can anyone with experience look at the site and see what you think?

#dreamweaver

wayfarer 15 years ago

Unfortunately, Dreamweaver 8's design-view is total junk, as it is based on a (very outdated) version of IE. The newer versions are based on Mozilla, but are still not perfect.

You are going to need to learn some code if you are going to prevent this from happening in the future, Dreamweaver is a great tool when used professionally, but it is also terrible crutch that has a huge potential for misuse in the wrong hands.

As far as your site, you will need to provide a link for us to look at...
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- cashtech29 15 years ago
  
  Yeah, I am no techie but I use dreamweaver because I can insert the floating layers
  and place them anywhere, any size I want and with some background color,
  it makes for a nice looking web site.
  
  If I was able to find something else that I could do the same things with, I'd
  probably go for it.
  Any suggestions?
  
  I do know a small amount of html.
  Are these codes fairly simple to implement?
  
  Thanks
  
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wayfarer 15 years ago

You might want to start here: HTML Tutorial

And here: CSS Tutorial
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- cashtech29 15 years ago
  
  Wow, that's great, wayfarer!
  I thought that the layers were css boxes.
  I know that in dreamweaver8 the sidebar has two modes: "layers" and "css".
  are you saying that if I create my pages in the "css" mode, instead of "Layer" mode
  that I can make this anomaly stop happening?
  
  Thanks
  
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- cashtech29 15 years ago
  
  Thank you for your response webinfo234.
  
  My actual site will be a membership site and it's still in the works,
  so that would be a little difficult.
  
  When I get through with some other projects today, I'll
  make a mock-up of a page and create the same scenario
  so you can see what I'm talking about.
  
  Thanks again.
  
  Thanks
  
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gimmick 15 years ago

Also the excact spot on your page the layers show up depend on the resolution the viewer has if you use floating layers. There are methods and scripts to dock the layer, but DWW default layer system sucks.
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ecoverartist 15 years ago

I second that DW8's layer's view is absolutely abysmal. I wouldn't trust it to even do a mockup. Especially because you're designing in the constraings of its "Design View" window and not the user's actual resolution -until you preview it and see that your layers are all over the place.

An excellent place to learn web design technologies when you're starting out is www.lynda.com - I taught a university course on dreamweaver with one of their books and it was incredibly helpful.
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- cashtech29 15 years ago
  
  Is there a way that I can dock each layer?
  I've spent so many months on this web site, I hate to loose it all.
  
  Thanks
  
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  cashtech29 15 years ago
  
  I know that DW has both layers and CSS modes.
  Does this make a difference on the way the layers / styles behave.
  
  Would I do well by taking a CSS course?
  and would CSS solve my problems that you described?
  
  Thanks
  
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  cashtech29 15 years ago
  
  Hey, sorry I haven't gotten back to anyone, I never got notice of the new recant posts.
  Anyway, are you saying that when I add a layer in DR8 and position it on my web page, that isn't necessarily css?
  
  I had ordered a css course about two weeks ago but then I got the notion that DR8
  did the css thing automatically, when I added a layer to the page. I never started the learning process.
  thought it was pointless.
  
  As I said earlier, if I add a layer to a page, put some text into it and add another layer with some background beside the first layer and then look at it in my browser, one of the layers become twice as long as it was on my computer, and yet the other one can remain the same size as when I made it.
  What a strange anomaly.
  I also have times where I can highlight one layer and two or three other layers will highlight right along with it. (Makes it hard to move things around the way I want).
  
  I really do want to learn how to beat the DR8 quagmire, though.
  It's just so damn easy to build a beautiful, colorful page with the layers...
  
  I guess I need to break out the css course.
  
  Any quick video tutorials on how to build expanding mini sites using tables?
  That might be a big help also.
  
  Thanks
  
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gimmick 15 years ago

Do you have style.css set for your page? If so, in the CSS Rule definition dialog box, select Positioning, and then set the style attributes you want. Set the style attribute 'Placement' where you want the layer to appear.

I have not tried myself because I use layers very seldom, but that should work...
Good luck!
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- Rich Mann 15 years ago
  
  There's a lot about DW8 that really sux. It's a gr8 tool but the learning curve is hideous. When I upgraded to DW8 I was very disappointed in the layers rendering an lack of support for Mozilla, Opera and other modern browsers. I have also struggled with the rendering engine and also some of the site maintenance (uploading) problems. I finally decided to develop my sites on my local machine and use SmartFTP for all my uploading. I actually use an old version of Homesite for some of my development.
  
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