Wow! I'm away from my email for a day and look at all the terrific replies! Thanks to everyone for your advice.
For those who mentioned it'd be easier if you could see the design, I've posted it here: http://www.southernenvironment.org/test/home_redraft.html For comparison sake, check out the current live version of our homepage http://www.southernenvironment.org/index.htm Table soup. Seriously. Wanna feel my pain? Lift the hood on that bad boy and take a gander. So anyway, I'm aware that my css for the redesign is a bit soupy itself; if I were to move forward, I'd start breaking this puppy into some separate sheets - one for main page layout, one for fonts, maybe one for images. Our site has more than 150 individual pages, with at least half a dozen different kinds of layouts, so it'd be tricky (and fun) to figure out the best way to organize the css. My main problems right now in dreamweaver: the left most column (what we call the toc, or table of contents) completely dissapears from the design view in dreamweaver 8. Someone mentioned negative margins wreaking havoc. Could that be it? Also: the header navigation and the footer are a bit quirky. In dreamweaver, the header list items "double up" (ie. "Our Programs" appears on two lines rather than one - not a big deal). Looks fine in all browsers I've tried. Also an issue: the footer is a bit wonky in dreamweaver - the blue border beneath the footer navigation shows in dreamweaver as longer than the border currently applied to the bottom of the three column container. Again, looks fine in all browsers. But then again, I'm not very pleased with the way the footer looks now. The most annoying problem is that missing table of contents. Any ideas? Unfortunately, the overall layout of the site isn't really up for discussion right now in our organization. For instance, elminating (or at least drastically simplifying) the table of contents - as I'd like to do - isn't an option. But I'd love to hear your opinions on the overall look of the page. Thanks so much to everyone for your help! matt On 10/17/06, Stephanie Leary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
