On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:34 AM, K Simanonok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Drag and drop is never a good idea, imho. Same as good CF code cannot be created with drag and drop, good efficient CSS cannot be created by drag and drop. Dreamweaver is a powerful text editor and you're better off using the code hinting and insights in code view to write your CSS. > 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. Dreamweaver templates are a completely separate beast, used for creating pages off a master template that are automatically kept updated in DW. I'm guessing when you created a new file you selected File->New and picked an option from the section "blank template" not "blank page". You want to pick "page" not "template". > 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? While Stef Sullivan really knows her stuff and I'm sure the book is great from that standpoint, you want to learn CSS not DW. I would recommend Eric Meyer on CSS, Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards, Dan Cedarholm's Bulletproof CSS, Andy Clark's Transcending CSS if you want to get tricky, and Molly Holzschlag's The Zen of CSS Design if you want to get inspired (and work out what the inspirers did). > Any other suggestions about working with Dreamweaver to separate content from > presentation would be appreciated. It's a good text editor with site management features - stay out of design view. Please :) -- Kay Smoljak business: www.cleverstarfish.com coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com personal: goatlady.wordpress.com | heapsbad.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:305776 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
