Cell vs table quetsion

Question

I know this is not the best way of designing a site, but I
usually do my layout in PS, import to image ready, slice it up, add
rollovers, then export html and images to work with in DW.
When doing this, I believe IR creates all the images in
cells, rather than tables.
On some occations, I just create a table and insert my images
into various tables in my html document. In DW MX, I had an option
of using or converting between tables and cells. In DW CS3, my
cells option is faded out. I need to convert a table html doc to
cells. Reason being, Im trying to add some js to a page for some
special effects and the js needs to be the only table in the page
to work correctly.
So, did I miss something in my DW CS3? is the cell feature no
longer an option? Do I need to download an extension to use cells?
Or am I going about this the wrong way. Thanks for any help.
p.s. when scrolling over the cell button that doesnt seem to
work, the screen hint states Draw Layout Cell (layout mode only)
Ive tried in layout mode and standard. still no good.

Answer 1

>I know this is not the best way of designing a site, but
I usually do my
>layout
> in PS, import to image ready, slice it up, add
rollovers, then export html
> and
> images to work with in DW.
It's not just 'not the best'. It's actually 'the worst',
since such HTML is
fragile, and will cause your layout to break without warning.
This means
that the code written by a graphics application is monolithic
and
inflexible, being written to EXACTLY duplicate the shape of
the graphic and
its included 'content'. When you change that shape, the page
just breaks -
things spread apart and develop gaps, content wraps in
unexpected way, and
your layout generally just breaks.
> When doing this, I believe IR creates all the images in
cells, rather than
> tables.
A cell is in a table. You cannot have a cell without having
it be part of a
table. And you cannot have something in a table without it
being in a cell.
> On some occations, I just create a table and insert my
images into various
> tables in my html document. In DW MX, I had an option of
using or
> converting
> between tables and cells. In DW CS3, my cells option is
faded out. I need
> to
> convert a table html doc to cells. Reason being, Im
trying to add some js
> to a
> page for some special effects and the js needs to be the
only table in the
> page
> to work correctly.
This is very confused. Are you referring to tables < -
> layers? If using
IR HTML is like a train wreck, converting tables to layers
would be like a
nuclear explosion. That 'feature' was removed from CS4
because it created
such a dreadful mess.
> Reason being, Im trying to add some js to a
> page for some special effects and the js needs to be the
only table in the
> page
> to work correctly.
Sorry - this just makes no sense. Javascript is not a table.
Javascript
code can go anywhere in the page.
> Ive tried in layout mode and standard
Layout mode is functionally equivalent to using IR to write
your HTML. This
'feature' too has been removed from CS4.
I'm sorry to seem like I'm picking on you, but the truth is
that if you want
to use Dreamweaver, you are going to have to learn some HTML
and CSS to
survive. Otherwise, DW will clobber you big time....
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>I know this is not the best way of designing a site, but
I usually do my
>layout
> in PS, import to image ready, slice it up, add
rollovers, then export html
> and
> images to work with in DW.
>
> When doing this, I believe IR creates all the images in
cells, rather than
> tables.
>
> On some occations, I just create a table and insert my
images into various
> tables in my html document. In DW MX, I had an option of
using or
> converting
> between tables and cells. In DW CS3, my cells option is
faded out. I need
> to
> convert a table html doc to cells. Reason being, Im
trying to add some js
> to a
> page for some special effects and the js needs to be the
only table in the
> page
> to work correctly.
>
> So, did I miss something in my DW CS3? is the cell
feature no longer an
> option? Do I need to download an extension to use cells?
Or am I going
> about
> this the wrong way. Thanks for any help.
>
> p.s. when scrolling over the cell button that doesnt
seem to work, the
> screen
> hint states Draw Layout Cell (layout mode only)
> Ive tried in layout mode and standard. still no good.
>