ridergroov schrieb:
Quote:
How can I structure the page without using tables? I mainly work in
Flash and this is one reason I hate dreamweaver. Too many rules and
I'm not aware of them. I made hte empty text boxes there to get the
alignment right for the menu on the left. Probably not the best idea
and I know that but it worked. How can I structure it in DW without
tables?
You can structure the page in HTML like this:
<div id="head">
<h1>This is the headline</h2>
<img src="myimg.jpg" alt="this is an image">
</div>
<div id="content">
<h2>A subtitle</h2>
<p>And this is a text</p>
</div>
And suggest a page layout with CSS (which this group is about) like this:
<style type="text/css">
#head {
background:...;
margin:...;
}
#head h1 {
font:...;
}
#content {
background:...;
}
And so on. If you want to know how to do this in Dreamweaver you might
want to ask in macromedia.dreamweaver available on Macromedia's news
server forums.macromedia.com (or via the Macromedia website).
Anyway you have to know that there is a fundamental difference between
using Dreamweaver and using Flash or a layout software like InDesign:
Flash and InDesign generate files in their proprietary formats for you,
which can only be viewed with the software itself or with a proprietary
viewer. Or, in case of export, they generate fully standardized code
such as PostScript or PDF, which will be rendered identically on all
systems.
Authoring a web page is totally different. HTML code is nothing but a
way of structuring text, and there is CSS to suggest a layout. Browser
implementations of CSS rendering vary a lot, even where they are not
buggy. Fonts might be missing on the user's systems, image display
turned off, or CSS disabled. Some browsers, such as braille or text-only
browsers, will give a totally different interpretation of your code than
visual browsers.
Other than with PostScript or PDF, you need at least a basic
understanding of HTML and CSS if you want to create HTML code.
Dreamweaver provides a user interface to this, but as you see it won't
prevent you from creating buggy code. And DW's layout view is not the
"correct" rendering, but only DWs interpretation of the code, which can
be different from Firefox' or IEs.
