1) I haven't used the WYSIWYG editor of DW in quite awhile so I can't comment on being able to store CSS in an external file. I believe it writes the CSS in the head of the template. If so, you could simply copy/paste that into an external file and link to it.
2) A dwt file is used if you are going to have similar pages with similar layout. I find them very frustrating to work with. You should have no problem creating a new .cfm file. When you create a new file, select FILE>NEW>BLANK PAGE>COLDFUSION. It seems like you might be clicking FILE>NEW>PAGE FROM TEMPLATE. 3) I'm completely self-taught on DW with some help from friends, so I can't comment. HTML/CSS is pretty easy to become proficient in. I'd suggest spending your time reading books on HTML/CSS rather than Dreamweaver. If you go that route, I recommend... Bulletproof Web Design By Dan Cederholm www.simplebits.com CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions By Andy Budd www.andybudd.com -----Original Message----- From: K Simanonok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Dreamweaver CS3 with ColdFusion and Style Sheets Just a few years ago Dreamweaver was a horrid product with meaningless icons scattered all over the place, now I've downloaded the trial for CS3 and find that most of the deficiencies have been fixed to make it a proper Windows application with normal dropdown text menus and only a few meaningless icons scattered here and there that at least show their function in text when moused over. I want to redesign a website to follow the Zen Garden example (http://csszengarden.com) and completely separate content (i.e. in index.cfm) from presentation (i.e. in styles.css). It looks like Dreamweaver could help in this effort, if anyone has answers to these questions I'd be grateful: 1) Is there any way to set up Dreamweaver to work so that all drag and drop and editing operations will be performed entirely on the style sheet? (Excepting actual text changes of course). Dreamweaver seems to allow a certain amount of drag and drop functionality (it's not clear how it decides to work sometimes and sometimes not though) and if drag and drop and other edits could be made to work entirely on the style sheet that would be ideal. 2) Dreamweaver persistently wants to save my index.cfm file as index.cfm.dwt, I am guessing dwt stands for 'dreamweaver template' and DW is probably trying to be helpful but that is just plain irritating functionality that I would like to either shut off or else use in a less intrusive way if possible. I notice that what looks like Dreamweaver-specific code gets inserted into my named-by-brute-force-every-time-saved index.cfm using it the way I am, and that's probably not the way it's supposed to work. So, can I tell DW to write its .dwt files somewhere where I don't have to screw around with them, and allow me to edit the index.cfm file directly? Or do I have to always work in the .dwt file and hope that the proper index.cfm will somehow get written out for me properly somewhere? Naturally the Help functionality explains everything about the smallest minutia of the program but omits the central big picture stuff necessary for setup and getting started, can anyone advise me how to set up Dreamweaver properly to do its own thing out of my way and let me edit my files without DW wanting to rename them? 3) I just ordered "Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3" by Stephanie Sullivan and Greg Rewis, anyone know that book and can comment on its quality? Any other suggestions about working with Dreamweaver to separate content from presentation would be appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:305769 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
