Re: [css-d] Using Dreamweaver with standards-based websites?

2006-10-18 Thread Matt Dawson
Wow! I'm away from my email for a day and look at all the terrific replies! Thanks to everyone for your advice. For those who mentioned it'd be easier if you could see the design, I've posted it here: http://www.southernenvironment.org/test/home_redraft.html For comparison sake, check out the

[css-d] Using Dreamweaver with standards-based websites?

2006-10-17 Thread Matt Dawson
I work as a web manager for a smallish nonprofit. Though I'm the primary keeper of the site, there are a number of others in the org that edit it. Dreamweaver is the program that everyone's familiar with, so that's what we use. In my spare time, I've been redesigning the homepage with CSS - I

Re: [css-d] Using Dreamweaver with standards-based websites?

2006-10-17 Thread Ian Young
Subject: [css-d] Using Dreamweaver with standards-based websites? I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver 8 and.no dice. The page is every bit as fractured in design mode in 8 as it was in MX. Is all hope lost? I won't be able to get approval for reworking our website

Re: [css-d] Using Dreamweaver with standards-based websites?

2006-10-17 Thread Manuel Razzari
I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver 8 and.no dice. The page is every bit as fractured in design mode in 8 as it was in MX. Matt, I've found that complex layouts, involving nested floats and positioned elements, work just fine in Dreamweaver if I get them to work in older Operas

Re: [css-d] Using Dreamweaver with standards-based websites?

2006-10-17 Thread Stephanie Leary
Matt Dawson wrote: snip I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver 8 and.no dice. The page is every bit as fractured in design mode in 8 as it was in MX. Is all hope lost? I won't be able to get approval for reworking our website with a CSS layout unless there's some program out

Re: [css-d] Using Dreamweaver with standards-based websites?

2006-10-17 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Matt Dawson wrote: Is all hope lost? I won't be able to get approval for reworking our website with a CSS layout unless there's some program out there that would let people make simple WYSIWYG edits. Is there another editor out there that might work? Is there a setting in Dreamweaver that