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Dreamweaver 4.0

by Andyf
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I know...I know...4.0 is really old!

But, it's what I have and it seems to work O.K. The only reason I'm using it is that I can do CSS with it. I'm just learning CSS and this helps.

Anyway, one question:

Why is it that when I use Dreamweaver and just use their menus to insert Layers and other formatting things I see the result in the "Design" view the way I want but when I use an external style sheet the "Design" view looks all screwed up, or nothing like I want?

If I "Preview In Browser" it looks O.K.

It seems that Dreamweaver, or at least this older version, doesn't like external style sheets....it just likes you to work "inline". I bet I'm wrong though.

Does anyone know how to make the Design view look like it should when you are using an external style sheet to style the HTML code in Dreamweaver 4.0?

Thanks!

Andyf
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Gammage
    In my experience, external stylesheets in DW4 behave weird. Here's Adobe's instructions on creation of an external stylesheet:

    How to create an external Cascading Style Sheet

    I've had to go so far as renaming the stylesheet and relinking in order to reload. It's ugly. :-)

    My advice? Go to eBay and find a copy of DWMX or DWMX2004 for cheap.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Morgan
      I always had issues with external stylesheets in DW4 too. And the layers stuff is a nightmare with that product. But other than that it still works very well for standard html stuff. I agree with Andy, get a copy of MX, the first versions of it are very cheap, and handle CSS just fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author solidsoul
    You will not get rid of this issue either it's how the program was built to handle external sheets however I know you like dw4 bit new version you will see better results
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  • Profile picture of the author waloosh
    That's why I FTP all my files to a subfolder on my site and see what it looks like there. I don't trust WYSIWYG editors anymore. I can't stand to have an internal style sheet anyway. I use php, so my front page, CSS, content, menus, and everything else is external.
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  • Profile picture of the author cdwise
    There is a reason it isn't recommended to use Dreamweaver 4 anymore. Its design window is archaec and cannot be relied on. Test frequently in a real browser if you can't get a more recent program but I think I'd look at some of the freeware editors over Dreamweaver 4, a 6 versions back program.

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  • Profile picture of the author HomeBizNizz
    WYSIWYG editor mode is bad, but if you only use it as a code editor it should be OK.
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