Design view different from preview - is muse still in beta testing

I have limited experience with coding html so when Adobe released Muse, I was excited. However, I'm wondering if they released it too soon and/or if it is still in beta testing - which I don't mind but would like to know what I'm dealing with. It seems to have a lot of quirks - mainly that the design view is sometimes different from the preveiw or browser view. I spent over an hour yesterday trying to get text boxes to line up. If there is an hidden element affecting the text boxes, I don't see it. I have moved everything off the page and >selected all
and nothing shows up.
Other issues:
Sometimes paragraph styles do not apply - even though in design view it looks like they do.
Can't find a way to center text vetically in a text box other than adjusting the leading?
Can't find a way to organize assets into folders?
When an object is selected on a page, is there a way to indicate that that is the object in the assests panel?
Sometimes the padding options are not available for no apparent reason.
Thanks to the Adobe staff for being responsive as these issues are discovered. One staff member in particular was very helpful as I was trying to get hyperlinks to work right. But I am STILL having a problem. The text box and the text itself have the hyperlink style applied but as you can see on the Dardanelle and Chad Lawson Trio hyperlinks - the style did not take even though they are both hyperlinks that point to the right URL. -- geezermusicclub is the correct link for Dardanelle - It's difficult to see in the pic, but the Dardanelle and Chad Lawson text color is black but the hyperlink text style is brown.
Persoanlly, I feel Adobe should lower the subcription price while all these kinks are being worked out in Muse. In a way, subscribers are **** a LOT of beta testing for Adobe. Not only are we not being compensated for that, we are having to pay for an application that has too many wrinkles.

Murray and David: it worked! It is a rare and joyous experience to have a straightforward solution to the sorts of problems I come up with (including other realms). But I have to say that with HTML and CSS (and hence with Dreamweaver), solutions to difficulties have seemed within easier reach than in other parts of the computer world.
By the way, I wanted to choose "correct answer" for both your posts, but after making the first click it was no longer available for the remaining post--so I typed "helpful" even though that one was correct too.
Thanks again.
--Paul

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--Paul

Murray and David: it worked! It is a rare and joyous experience to have a straightforward solution to the sorts of problems I come up with (including other realms). But I have to say that with HTML and CSS (and hence with Dreamweaver), solutions to difficulties have seemed within easier reach than in other parts of the computer world.
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div {width:250px; height:100;px; position:absolute; }
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"Alexariel" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> When viewing in Design view my code correctly shows 2
overlapping
> rectangles.
> In browser view it shows two smaller rectangles that do
not overlap. I am
> using
> DW MX 2004. I have attached small sample code.
> Thanks,
> Alexariel
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
> <style type="text/css">
> body {margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
> div {width:250px; height:100;px; position:absolute; }
> div.one {background-color:#FF0000; left: 0px; top: 0px;
> div.two {background-color:#00FF00;left: 75px; top:
25px;}
> </style>
> </head>
> <body>
> <div class="one">one</div>
> <div class="two">two</div>
> </body>
> </html>
>

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"MA_DAVIDLEE" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> thank you for reply and the url is www.cipr.com.tw. you
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I am producing a proof site for a client and cannot load it to be live just yet so sorry for any inconvience but I have taken some screen shots and will paste code/html.
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[IMG]http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb323/SKH_Design/Picture1-1.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb323/SKH_Design/Picture2.png[/IMG]
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</style>
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<script type="text/javascript">

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/* CSS Document */
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margin-right:auto;
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