Aidan, Yep, agree its better to avoid formatting in design view. Better to set up an external style sheet and add your classes to it etc. I use BOBBY for 508 conformity to disability legislation they may make mandatory in the next couple of years which is great for checking usability of pages and validating (recently went up in price though:-( I still have that issue of copying/pasting where I copy from an external app into Dreamweaver works first time. However, if I'm copying/pasting inside dreamweaver and say the last copy/paste was <em> if I now go to another application and copy and try to paste into DWMX it pastes again the last DWMX paste grr <em> and not the just copied material from the external app. This happens with a small html2text prog anyway, have not tested it with eg Word. DWMX by an large I find excellent but templates have to be handled carefully with backups made as I`ve managed to crash it a few times even with the update, nice templates to choose from for ready made style sheets as well, support in help section especially helpful for tags including CF functions...
cheers Colm -----Original Message----- From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 July 2003 09:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT: Design view in DWMX > I work with a similar file structure, and have been using ie preview my > pages, haven't tried using DWMX's Live Data View yet, Okie, thx. Yeah, that's what I've been doing too. <whinge> I'm trying so hard to use it and like it, but can't help getting frustrated. For example, in Design View, click a cell and specify its class via simply typing it into a text box in the Properties panel. Can you? Don't think so.... *shrug* If you click a cell and then select Align Center, it wraps the cell's contents in <div align="center"></div> instead of adding style="text-align: center;" to the cell itself. Pick a cell and specify it's background colour, it uses bgcolor="#xxyyzz" instead of using style="background-color: #xxyyzz;" and it lets you apply font tags all over the place -- it's like the Design element actively encourages you to keep writing ugly, old HTML. </whinge> I'll go through the DWMX section in the Studio MX user guide over the w/e. No doubt I'm being excessively harsh and just highlighting my lack of product knowledge (and the fact that it's a Friday ;-) -- Aidan Whitehall <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Macromedia ColdFusion Developer Fairbanks Environmental Ltd +44 (0)1695 51775 Queen's Awards Winner 2003 <http://www.fairbanks.co.uk/go/awards> ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.496 / Virus Database: 295 - Release Date: 03/07/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.496 / Virus Database: 295 - Release Date: 03/07/2003 -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
