Dreamweaver CS3 to CS4 Changes

Question

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

Answer 1

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!
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"Curtis02" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> 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
>