Centering site Dreamweaver vs GoLive

Question

Hopefully some GoLive guru that is now using Dreamweaver can
help. Tried to recreate the GoLive 7 site in Dreamweaver and found
learning curve is steep. Tried to convert Go Live file to
Dreamweaver but Dreamweaver will not convert GoLive7 only Go Live 8
files. Catch 22.
My problem is that I had created a site using the Go Live
grid and I can get the background image to center with the
inspector but the text does not align in proper center position
over the background when I center the grid in the inspector. Can I
accomplish this in GoLive.
I have tried all GoLive forums and cannot find a resolve.
The link below shows the default left position of the page
but when I try to center the background and grid copy and enter
link they do not properly line up.
http://www.thefidlergroup.com/index.html
Help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

> learning curve is steep.
This is an understatement. If you are a typical GL user, you
will need to
understand that DW is very focused on valid HTML and best
practice methods.
If you do not know or are at least comfortable with HTML and
CSS, your going
will be tough.
As an example, the W3 validator finds a number of instances
of invalid code
on your page -
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefidlergroup.com%2Findex.ht ml
Why should this concern you? Layout issues CAN be caused by
invalid markup
alone. If you know that you built the page with valid
methods, then a
layout issue might be immediately highlighted by using the
validator linked
above. Unfortunately, GL was not so focused on valid code,
and as a result
has left these boogers on your page for you to clean up.
To achieve your desire to have this page centered, you will
need to work a
bit on the CSS. Change this -
to this -
body {
color: black;
background: white
url(images/fidlershell_logo_background.jpg) no-repeat
center top;
Then in the HTML, change this -
<table width="1195" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" cool
gridx="16" gridy="16" height="837" showgridx showgridy
usegridx usegridy>
to this -
<table width="1195" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0"
style="margin:0 auto;">
and see what happens.
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> Hopefully some GoLive guru that is now using Dreamweaver
can help. Tried
> to
> recreate the GoLive 7 site in Dreamweaver and found
learning curve is
> steep.
> Tried to convert Go Live file to Dreamweaver but
Dreamweaver will not
> convert
> GoLive7 only Go Live 8 files. Catch 22.
>
> My problem is that I had created a site using the Go
Live grid and I can
> get
> the background image to center with the inspector but
the text does not
> align
> in proper center position over the background when I
center the grid in
> the
> inspector. Can I accomplish this in GoLive.
>
> I have tried all GoLive forums and cannot find a
resolve.
>
> The link below shows the default left position of the
page but when I try
> to
> center the background and grid copy and enter link they
do not properly
> line up.
>
>
http://www.thefidlergroup.com/index.html
>
> Help would be greatly appreciated.
>