Matt Dawson wrote: <snip> > I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver 8 and.....no dice. The page > is every bit as fractured in design mode in 8 as it was in MX. > > Is all hope lost? I won't be able to get approval for reworking our website > with a CSS layout unless there's some program out there that would let > people make simple WYSIWYG edits. Is there another editor out there that > might work? Is there a setting in Dreamweaver that I'm just missing? Or am > I just SOL?
Dreamweaver handles some CSS layouts better than others. Negative margins almost always give me trouble, for example, but I've had good luck with a lot of the layouts from positioniseverything.net. If you're going for something relatively standard, like 2 or 3 columns with a header and footer, try downloading a handful of sample layouts from the usual suspects and see what works. If you have a minute, let Adobe know what kind of layout you were trying to use: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform They do pay attention to that form -- or at least Macromedia did; I presume there's still someone listening on the other end. Filing a bug report won't solve your immediate problem, but it might lead to better support in DW9. -- Stephanie Leary Web Communications Specialist Texas A&M University System http://tamus.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
