Dreamweaver CS3 instead CS4 for optimization on older hardware . . .

Dreamweaver CS3 instead CS4 for optimization on older hardware . . .
I do design for print and every year more and more customers have asked me if I would design their web site after I have designed their brochures and other collateral. For the last nine years I have never found the time to learn web production. I purchased Adobe PageMill and then upgraded to Adobe GoLive 5 but I have never found the time to learn these programs. But lately, requests for web design have persisted. I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver CS4 but it is too slow on my 1.25 GHz MDD Dual G4, running Mac OS 10.4.11.
So I purchased the Dreamweaver CS3 upgrade, which was still available from Officemax.com. I also purchased "Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual" by David McFarland. I'll be going through the tutorials on weekends trying to become functional with Dreamweaver.
I'll be using it in WYSIWYG mode and not as a HTML coder.

I would have been happy to make DWCS4 my first step up to Dreamweaver but with it not officially supported on G4 Macs and all the menus at the top running way too slow, I needed to stick with what is officially supported for the G4 by Adobe, Dreamweaver CS3.
It is possible that future updates of DWCS4 will be more optimized and do OK on my G4. It is also possible that running my outdated version of Font Reserve 3.1.4, under Mac OS 10.4.11, is slowing down the menus on DWCS4 on my machine even Acrobat 7 Pro gives me slow menus with my current set up.
InDesign CS3 is fast enough on my system and IDCS4 runs just as fast as IDCS3 on my Dual MDD G4.
I don't think I will be getting an Intel-Mac desktop and laptop until 18 months from now.

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Dreamweaver CS3 installation asking for Photoshop CS4 disc

I am trying to install Dreamweaver CS3 from the original install disc and a progress bar gets about 1/2 way through the installation process and I'm asked to insert the Photoshop CS4 install disc.
The Dreamweaver installation is not an upgrade. It is an original install.
I am on a Mac, OS 10.6
This is weird.
Does anyone have a solution?

Run this, the re-install. Ignore the name of the file. They condensed everything into one package for CS3-CS5 instead of separate packages for each:
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs5clean.html

Dreamweaver CS3 instead of CS4

I do design for print and every year more and more customers
have asked me if I would design their web site after I have
designed their brochures and other collateral. For the last nine
years I have never found the time to learn web production. I
purchased Adobe PageMill and then upgraded to Adobe GoLive 5 but I
have never found the time to learn these programs. But lately,
requests for web design have persisted. I downloaded the trial
version of Dreamweaver CS4 but it is too slow on my 1.25 GHz MDD
Dual G4, running Mac OS 10.4.11.
So I purchased the Dreamweaver CS3 upgrade, which was still
available from Officemax.com. I also purchased "Dreamweaver CS3:
The Missing Manual" by David McFarland. I'll be going through the
tutorials on weekends trying to become functional with Dreamweaver.
I'll be using it in WYSIWYG mode and not as a HTML
coder.

Like kiusau, I'm wondering what your question is. But let me
make this
suggestion. If you have no intention to learn HTML and CSS,
then you will
be doing your clients a disservice by charging them for a
website built
using a WYSIWYG approach. Have you considered partnering with
a competent
web developer to provide this service to your customers? This
could be a
win-win arrangement for all three of you.
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"cgrscott" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I do design for print and every year more and more
customers have asked me
>if I
> would design their web site after I have designed their
brochures and
> other
> collateral. For the last nine years I have never found
the time to learn
> web
> production. I purchased Adobe PageMill and then upgraded
to Adobe GoLive
> 5 but
> I have never found the time to learn these programs. But
lately, requests
> for
> web design have persisted. I downloaded the trial
version of Dreamweaver
> CS4
> but it is too slow on my 1.25 GHz MDD Dual G4, running
Mac OS 10.4.11.
>
> So I purchased the Dreamweaver CS3 upgrade, which was
still available from
> Officemax.com. I also purchased "Dreamweaver CS3: The
Missing Manual" by
> David
> McFarland. I'll be going through the tutorials on
weekends trying to
> become
> functional with Dreamweaver.
>
> I'll be using it in WYSIWYG mode and not as a HTML
coder.
>

I find that the older version of Dreamweaver (CS3) works best for me.

I have used all new updated versions of Adobe Dreamweaver. Usually an update would make things easier for me but in this case it is the complete opposite. Don't get me wrong, Dreamweaver is still my primary choice for developing a website. I just find that for instance, Dreamweaver CS3 is more user friendly than CS5 & CS6 for example. Currently I'm working on a new website called [link removed]. It is where [link removed] , web store owners and unemployed individuals can try to find success to their needs. It is basically a one-stop spot to complete multiple tasks online and start generating a profit. It is like combining Etsy, Elance and SimplyHired into one. I created it all using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 because I found it easier. That's just my opinion guys. What do you think?

IE has been HTML5 compliant since IE9. There are still old goofy hold overs (like the automatic border on linked images) that you have to deal with, but its ability to render HTML5 elements is solid. CSS3 is a bit of a different story, IE9 was pretty bad, 10 was much better and 11 is pretty much a "modern browser" for its ability to render everything correctly, finally (thankfully and mercifully).
All of the other major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Android, Mobile Safari and Opera,) have been largely HTML5 compliant for years with just a few oddities left in obscure CSS3 attributes.
With the HTML5 shiv/modernizers available for IE7 and 8 added to the code to help them with the "new" semantic tags like <header>, <aside>, <article>, etc, I agree with Nancy, there's no reason to not use HTML5 going forward.

Dreamweaver CS3 to CS4

Can someone tell me how to keep all of my spry settings that
I have created in my web sites using Dreamweaver CS3 and now that I
am upgrading to CS4?
I don't want to have to go into my sites and have to make all
of those corrections since there are a lot of sites that I would
have to make changes too.
Thanks.

> All I want is an easy way to add align="center" to
> the H1 tag only.
Change it in the code.
> How do I
> change it back to how it did it in CS3?
Try selecting the text and using Ctrl-B.
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"Sawtooth500" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> So I'm talking about the properties window, the one
you'd get on the
> bottom of
> your screen abutting to the left edge of your screen. In
CS3 the HTML and
> CSS
> properties could all be viewed at the same time. Now, in
CS4, I have to
> choose
> between the HTML or CSS properties. What drives me even
more nuts, is for
> example say I click on some text in the design view, and
the text is
> formatted
> with H1 tags. In CS3 I could click the center button and
it would
> automatically
> add align="center" to the H1 tag. Now, it seems like it
wants to modify a
> css
> property of the parent div of the given element, in this
case it would be
> an H1
> tag. And in my case, the parent element is in a locked
part of a template,
> and
> I don't want to modify that. All I want is an easy way
to add
> align="center" to
> the H1 tag only. This goes the same, say for something
that I want bolded.
> In
> CS3, I just highlight my text in design view, high the B
bold button, and
> it
> adds
tags around the text. Now, it wants to modify a CSS element. How
> do I
> change it back to how it did it in CS3?
>

Dreamweaver CS3 to CS4 Changes

Changes in Dreamwever CS3 to CS4
Creating a text box over a photo.
I have been using a technique in CS3 learned from
"totaltraining.com"
I could take a photo into photoshop and slice it into areas
where I want to create a text block and use the photoshop save to
web application to write the html code and create the images. then
I open the html file in Dreamweaver CS3 and select the sliced block
image that I want to add text on top of and copy the link
information, Then Delete the image and add the hight measurement to
keep the space from shifting then paste the link information into
the box background in the control pallet at the bottom. Then insert
text on top of the background image. This gives me the ability to
use the page properties to add a over all background color or image
and still have a text box with the photo behind it.
The problem is that with new Dreamweaver CS4 I can not find
where to paste the link information. The control pallet has changed
and I can not find out how to add the image back into the cell as a
background. I have tried to just place the image into the cell but
everything shifts.
I know their is probably a better way to do this I am just
learning and trying to figure this out so any advice would be
helpful.
I would just use Dreamweaver3 but the demo I was working on
expired and I bought the CS4 package.
I have a website 80% finished and now I'm stuck.
Thanks, Curtis

Things that you 'used to be able to do but cannot in CS4' are
generally
things that you should never have done in the first place. A
big thrust of
CS4 is to remove things from DW that created invalid or
non-best practice
HTML. This method certainly sounds like a good candidate -
for example:
> use the photoshop save to web application to write the
> html code
This is a very bad idea. Such code is fragile beyond
expectation. One
should only use a graphics app to write HTML that is to be
used for
prototyping, not for production.
> Then Delete the image and add the hight measurement to
> keep the space from shifting
This is a very bad idea. Placing text into a region that is
vertically
constrained is like placing a timebomb in your code. What
happens with the
visitor makes the text larger to read more comfortably?
Blammo....
> Then insert text on top of the background image.
Bad idea for the same reason.
> The problem is that with new Dreamweaver CS4 I can not
find where to paste
> the
> link information. The control pallet has changed and I
can not find out
> add the
> image back to the cell as a background.
There are now two buttons on the Property inspector: HTML and
CSS. Click
the HTML one.
> I have tried to just place the image into the cell but
everything shifts.
Which is why you should never use "wizard" HTML.
> I know their is probably a better way to do this I am
just learning and
> trying
> to figure this out so any advice would be helpful.
Really? OK - just put DW down and go here -
http://www.w3schools.com - to
learn HTML and CSS. When you can understand this -
http://apptools.com/examples/pagelayout101.php
then you will be ready to come back to DW. Trying to use DW
without a fair
understanding of HTML and CSS is like being beat with a
broomstick!
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"Curtis02" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Changes in Dreamwever CS3 to CS4
>
> Creating a text box over a photo.
>
> I have been using a technique in CS3 learned from
"totaltraining.com"
> I could take a photo into photoshop and slice it into
areas where I want
> to
> create a text block and use the photoshop save to web
application to write
> the
> html code and create the images. then I open the html
file in Dreamweaver
> CS3
> and select the sliced block image that I want to add
text on top of and
> copy
> the link information, Then Delete the image and add the
hight measurement
> to
> keep the space from shifting then paste the link
information into the box
> background in the control pallet at the bottom. Then
insert text on top of
> the
> background image. This gives me the ability to use the
page properties to
> add a
> over all background color or image and still have a text
box with the
> photo
> behind it.
>
> The problem is that with new Dreamweaver CS4 I can not
find where to paste
> the
> link information. The control pallet has changed and I
can not find out
> add the
> image back to the cell as a background. I have tried to
just place the
> image
> into the cell but everything shifts.
>
> I know their is probably a better way to do this I am
just learning and
> trying
> to figure this out so any advice would be helpful.
> I would just use Dreamweaver3 but the demo I was working
on expired and I
> bought the CS4 package.
>
> I have a website 80% finished and now I'm stuck.
>
> Thanks, Curtis
>

Golive 6.0 to Dreamweaver CS3 or CS4

About a year ago I called customer service and asked if I upgraded Golive 6.0 to CS3 the migration kit would work, I actually still have the chat record with customer service where I specifically asked them if I could migrate. I was told yes so my company purchased Dreamweaver CS3. Of course when I tried the gl2dw migration, it didn't work and I opened a support ticket and went back and forth with support for weeks trying resolve the issue. I asked for a trial of golive 9 or cs2 so I could upgrade and they sent me invalid links. Finally after a few weeks I was just basically told too bad we can't help you, offered me a refund if I hadn't installed the software which of course I had. So I have had cs3 for over a year and haven't ever used it. Now I see CS4 is out and it says that you can migrate from golive 6.0. Is that really true? Have they ever fixed it so you can upgrade 6.0 to CS3? I can't even get the upgrade version for CS4 because I used my upgrade on CS3. I have a company website with over 500 web pages I need to convert. I really need to upgrade to DW and soon. My company buys thousands of dollars of software and licenses from adobe every year, we are a non profit agency and I can't keep spending money on things that don't work! This is extremely frustrating. HELP!

Making changes site wide can be accomplished 2 ways but in reality unless you are using a dynamic site that draws its page designs from a central template page.
In retrospect you may want to consider creating a Library item first for anything you may want to change site wide (The first way). Being that you are not there yet you will probably want to use the Edit > Find and Replace from the menu bar (The second way).
Simply open up the file you have changed and another you have not. Next (assuming the option is not right in front of you) on the menu bar: View > Code and Design, making sure you can see both code and Design in both files. Then from the menu bar: Edit > Find and Replace. Copy the code regarding the object that you want to change making sure that you copy any opening and closing tags if appropriate from the unchanged file then paste in into the FIND box. Do the same with the file that you have changed except you will paste that into the REPLACE box also making sure that you have copied the same area.
Make sure Find and Replace Settings are:
Find in: Entire current local site
Search: Source code
Then press the Replace All button.

Trade Dreamweaver CS3 Mac version for PC version.

Hello all,
I just mistakenly bought Dreamweaver CS3 Mac edition off of ebay. I need the PC version. Is anyone interested in trading versions or can anyone point me to somewhere that this is possible? Switching editions seems to be fairly common situation, but not possible with older versions.
Thanks

ggeller2012 wrote:
Not a very helpful answer. Anyway CS3 works fine on Windows 7 64-bit. No reason to spend hundreds on the latest and greatest for me.
Well you are trying to sell it to a place where people own later versions of the software. As long as the license is good, you may still qualify for the CS6 upgrade at the full retail price because of Adobe's cross-grade policy whereby you pay the upgrade price to switch your license. Basically you sign a letter of destruction and get the version for the other OS. Ultimately, Adobe is moving to solve that probelm with the cloud which works on both operating systems.
But I will have to agree with other sentiments. If you want to get rid of it, best place to look is on Ebay as you found it.

Flash Web Gallery edited in DreamWeaver CS3 or CS4

I use Lightroom 2.6 to create Flash Galleries. I'd like to add a link to the template in Dreamweaver CS3 or Trial CS4. However, the following message keeps appearing:
Sorry, this photo gallery requires that scripting be enabled on your web browser and that the Adobe Flash Player be installed. Down
load the Adobe Flash Player
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The index page is html so what am I missing?
Grace_h

Hi
It's probably due to the way you have 'linked' to your images in lightroom not being relative to the images address in your dreamweaver page.
Place your images in a folder within your dreamweaver site and create your lightroom page in the same folder.
PZ

Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks CS4

Does anyone know if Fireworks CS4 would work with Dreamweaver
CS3? I already have Dreamweaver CS3, and don't want to spend extra
money to upgrade if I don't have to, but I can't seem to find
Fireworks CS3 available anywhere.
Thank you!

When you say :if Fireworks CS4 would work with Dreamweaver
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Can you be a little more specific.

Dreamweaver CS3 debug tools for CF8?

Does anyone know of/have any native or 3rd party tools or
extensions that will debug CF code (like the CFEclipse debugger)
for DW CS3?
Thanks,
Rich

If you have installed the CF8 extension for Dreamweaver CS3 (
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/coldfusion/8/dreamweaverupdate/cf8_tags_for_dw.mxp),
the CF8 debug tools are included.

Dreamweaver CS3 to CS4 differences

So I'm talking about the properties window, the one you'd get
on the bottom of your screen abutting to the left edge of your
screen. In CS3 the HTML and CSS properties could all be viewed at
the same time. Now, in CS4, I have to choose between the HTML or
CSS properties. What drives me even more nuts, is for example say I
click on some text in the design view, and the text is formatted
with H1 tags. In CS3 I could click the center button and it would
automatically add align="center" to the H1 tag. Now, it seems like
it wants to modify a css property of the parent div of the given
element, in this case it would be an H1 tag. And in my case, the
parent element is in a locked part of a template, and I don't want
to modify that. All I want is an easy way to add align="center" to
the H1 tag only. This goes the same, say for something that I want
bolded. In CS3, I just highlight my text in design view, high the B
bold button, and it adds <strong> tags around the text. Now,
it wants to modify a CSS element. How do I change it back to how it
did it in CS3?

> All I want is an easy way to add align="center" to
> the H1 tag only.
Change it in the code.
> How do I
> change it back to how it did it in CS3?
Try selecting the text and using Ctrl-B.
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"Sawtooth500" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> So I'm talking about the properties window, the one
you'd get on the
> bottom of
> your screen abutting to the left edge of your screen. In
CS3 the HTML and
> CSS
> properties could all be viewed at the same time. Now, in
CS4, I have to
> choose
> between the HTML or CSS properties. What drives me even
more nuts, is for
> example say I click on some text in the design view, and
the text is
> formatted
> with H1 tags. In CS3 I could click the center button and
it would
> automatically
> add align="center" to the H1 tag. Now, it seems like it
wants to modify a
> css
> property of the parent div of the given element, in this
case it would be
> an H1
> tag. And in my case, the parent element is in a locked
part of a template,
> and
> I don't want to modify that. All I want is an easy way
to add
> align="center" to
> the H1 tag only. This goes the same, say for something
that I want bolded.
> In
> CS3, I just highlight my text in design view, high the B
bold button, and
> it
> adds
tags around the text. Now, it wants to modify a CSS element. How
> do I
> change it back to how it did it in CS3?
>

Preparing images for Dreamweaver cs3, using InDesign for templates

Hi, I'm about to start putting all my files together for my
website, but need to know in what form to save my images. I know
they should be jpegs or gifs, but what resolution, and what size?
Should I size them close to the size I want to see them on my
website? For example if I want to make a little linked (like a
thumbnail that you click on) image of a painting, and have the full
size image of that painting open up, should I save that image in
two different sizes?
Also, the tutorial I'm learning from says I can make a
template for use in Dreamweaver, with Photoshop or Illustrator, but
I'd rather use InDesign. Can I use InDesign files as templates in
Dreamweaver? If so, in what form should I save them?

> Can I
> use InDesign files as templates in Dreamweaver?
it won't be of any practical use, except to print out and use
as a guide.
on the images, make them the PIXEL size they need to be in
the web page.
If you aren't sure yet what exact size they will be, make
them a bit
oversize. Then after changing the html display size of them
in dreamweaver
(click on the image, then press shift key and drag corner of
image to
resize) you can jot down the pixel size shown in the dw
properties
inspector, and resize the image in an image editor to those
pixel
dimensions. For a resolution, just use 72 ppi as a number to
put there.
It's the pixel dimension that matters.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

CS3 Server Behavior for Update Links

Hi,
Here's something I noticed. The following JS code works on the desktop but won't work correctly on the server:
for(myLinkCounter = 0; myLinkCounter < myDoc.links.length; myLinkCounter ++) {
var myLink = myDoc.links.item(myLinkCounter);
myLink.update();
Conversely:
for(myLinkCounter = 0; myLinkCounter < myDoc.links.length; myLinkCounter ++) {
var myLink = myDoc.links.firstItem();
myLink.update();
works on the server but not the desktop. And, come to think of it, I think that was CS2 behavior. hmmm...
-Nissan

The script is doing exactly what you are telling it to do. By having the user leave the password blank, it is updating the database with the "blank" passsword.
In the form field containting the password field, put the password in as the default value from the database. You can do that by clicking on the form field and then selecting on dynamic. From there select the field that contains your password. From there make sure to mark the form field as a password so the password is hidden. You may also want to make a verify password form field as well with the same default value. That way when the user changes the password they have to change it on both.
If you have dreamweaver cs3 or cs4 or cs5 you can use the spry form validation and have it compare two form fields to make sure they match. If they dont match it wont let the user complete the form.
If you have an older version of dreamweaver you can download and use the yaromat form validation extension. It is a free extension.

Can I work with html5 in Dreamweaver CS3?

I'd like to work with html5 and stay with my CS3 application....I got to a page on my search, an old page, but never the less -- Adobe Releases HTML5 Pack also for older Dreamweaver CS3 and CS4 --Get your HTML5 Pack also on Dreamweaver CS3 and CS5--
The link takes me to the Adobe add-on page, doesn't seem to be there and searching doesn't bring up anything? Is this still available...
Thanks

thanks Nancy.
working in code works if that's the answer....didn't know if that would work....and i understand that the design view may not know what i'm saying...
...but.....http://www.dmxzone.com/go/17740/adobe-releases-html5-pack-also-for-older-dreamweaver-cs3-a nd-cs4/ this release came out for 5 back in 2010ish and suggested Adobe had content for 3 and 4 as well....

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