If I understand the original question, this is not really all of the 
answer.  I too work with the occasional client who uses Dreamweaver (in 
design mode) to edit the content of their site.  They do this because 
they have trouble figuring out where they are in code view.  Even when 
using DW templates and locking down all code but editable areas, they 
are still unsure what is going on.  They definitely understand that the 
page will look fine when viewed using a browser, but that's not the 
issue.  The issue, if I'm reading correctly, is that, in this particular 
case, elements render so poorly in DW that it makes editing the content 
impossible.

Like Jana said earlier...I have not had a case where the rendering in DW 
design view was so bad that elements were overlapping, or otherwise 
rendered so out of place that editing in design view was impossible.  Be 
sure to test it out in plenty of other browsers and be prepared to 
modify your code a bit.

Cheers,
Tim

bj wrote:
> Dreamweaver design view is NOT a browser. You and your client both need to 
> view
> the site in browsers to truly know how it looks.
>
> Though css support has come far in the last version of DW, it still
> renders the BEST neg margin source ordered layouts as a jumble in
> wysiwyg view, despite the fact that the broken browser, IE, will
> display them just fine.
>
> So the answer is client education. Either you use undesirable markup
> so they can easily edit in design view or you use good Search Engine
> and Accessible device friendly markup and they preview in browser
> after edits.
>
>   

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