Design in dreamweaver

Question

I am new to this and I am needing to set up a webpage. What
is the best way to go about designing a page? Do I design
everything in another program then transfer it in? If so what
program? OR can I design in Dreamweaver? Also I need to make a
members login for my page, how do I do that?
Thanks

Answer 1

Your question would be more accurate if you reworded it like
this -
"Is it a good idea to use a graphics application to write
your HTML for a
web page?"
and the answer to that is unequivocal - NO. It *IS* possible
to do this,
but only when you know what you are doing well enough to be
able to take
control of both the setup of the graphics program, and its
resulting HTML
output. In other words, a function that seems like the new,
inexperienced
user's dream come true is a blatant lie.
The answer you quote from the other forum reveals a shallow
understanding,
both of slicing and of CSS page layout, on the part of the
person giving the
answer.
If you read the tutorial I gave you, you will see that the
authors DO NOT
use FW to write any HTML. And they *do* all of their HTML
work in DW.
That's the best approach in my opinion.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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"rrogertbb" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi Murray ACE that tutorial really is what I need as
well - as a newbie it
> really seems to cover the basics thoroughly however I am
more familiar
> with
> photoshop and have been looking at it's web preparation
abilities and they
> look
> pretty similar to those described for Flash - can I
trouble you to
> confirm
> this assumption and/or are you aware of a tutorial that
covers part one of
> this
> tute but using pshop. Also I keep reading that slices
are old hat here's a
> clip
> from a forum I was reading : "One of the major problems
with image slicing
> is
> that it is a slow process compared to using CSS based
layouts; it’s simply
> much
> quicker and easier to layout your pages with CSS. " -
This is when I start
> to
> get confused coming across a really good tutorial that
seems to explain
> all
> only to find that it's old technology. I must be tired
I'm starting to
> ramble -
> apologies best regards Roger
>