Dreamweaver cs4 layout issues

Hi
I am using Dreamweaver CS4. When i am designing my web page, I get a totally different look when I am in design view and when I switch to live view. Can you tell me why is this???

It's because Design view is only a rough approximation and shouldn't be used as a final word for how the page will look in the browser. Live view is an actual browser (WebKit = Safari), and should render the page as it would look, in Safari at least.
If you are seeing a big difference between the two, however, then it's likely you have some underlying coding issues. Does your page validate here?
http://validator.w3.org

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Just a thought ...
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Re :Re: Dreamweaver CS4 having issues after installing PS CS6 Beta
Just a thought ...
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I just uploaded CS4, and I noticed some strange things within Dreamweaver (DW). I'm hoping that someone can help me to figure out how to solve them:
1) When I minimize DW, the cursor acts strange when trying to use DW( i.e. scrolling, clicking on files, etc.) or resize its window. I have to maximize DW in order to use it properly. Does anyone know why this is happening?
2) I see an easy way to minimize the left-column's files/assets/snippets window, but I don't see the same feature for the bottom-column's property and search windows. Is there a way to create one within preferences, because I cannot find one?
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Thanks for the reply PZ.
Q: 1) When I minimize DW, the cursor acts strange when trying to use DW( i.e. scrolling, clicking on files, etc.) or resize its window. I have to maximize DW in order to use it properly. Does anyone know why this is happening?
A: 1. Sorry, cannot help with this one.
Comment: That's too bad. There's definitely a bug with this one.
Q: 2) I see an easy way to minimize the left-column's files/assets/snippets window, but I don't see the same feature for the bottom-column's property and search windows. Is there a way to create one within preferences, because I cannot find one?
A: 2. On the bottom ones just click on any part of the title bar.
Comment: That worked great! Thanks.
Q: 3) I cannot get the left-column's files/assets/snippets window to minimize completely, as it did with DW MX 2004. Is there a way to do this within preferences, because I cannot find one?
A: 3. If you look at the very top of all the panels / groups, you will see a small double arrow, click on this.
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A: 4. With the find replace dialog box, you have to select the folder/file options.
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Hi everyone,
Just wondering if anyone can help me with this... checkout this website of mine (Im a guitar teacher) http://www.jlgtuition.com
(jpeg exported from photoshop used as background design) click here advice on how to lay this out again (site needs updated flash links dont work on android tablets/phones etc...) If I were to go for the same layout and design would it be best to slice it in photoshop and uss CSS for the layout (using divs) OR maybe as I had tried without much success use divs in CSS and draw (as in the old way) layers and place text that way... Problem there was in iexplore it jumps to the left compared to firefox where text was staying static...it needs to expand with the various browers. Also was looking rough on iphones as well which I presume were using Safari...?
What do yo think is the best solution..Im not great with CSS and prefer (if I can) to use Design option in DW to layout the pages in DW... Any help much appreciated...
Cheers James

There's a lot of really bad information on YouTube. You get what you pay for.
You're right about tables. That's the old school way of doing things. Responsive Web Design is all based on CSS Media Queries -- different layouts for different screen widths (mobile, tablet & desktops).
Start learning CSS and it's relationship to HTML. Coding skills are essential. Bookmark these sites.
http://www.html.net/
http://w3schools.com/
http://www.csstutorial.net/
http://phrogz.net/css/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/sessions/web-design-theory/
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/introducing-media-queries.html
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I think there is something wrong with the data you have provided for us.
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Also if your iMac is new one, you will not be able install Panther on it.
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Allan
Message was edited by: Allan Eckert

Dreamweaver CS4 Layout

Why, when I lay things out in Dreamweaver, everything looks bunched up, but it looks normal when tested in Internet Explorer?
Here's how my Dreamweaver screen looks...
Here's how my Internet Explorer test screen looks...
Is there a DreamWeaver setting that I'm missing? I'd like to be able to edit everything and view it the same way in Internet Explorer.
Help!
Thanks,
Jared

Hi Murray... I know the rules and I apologize for not posting the code...
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body id="siteBackground">
<img src="images/header.png" width="1000" height="164" id="header" />

<img src="images/dogcare.png" alt="Dog Care" width="246" height="70" id="dogcare">
 
 
<img src="images/catcare.png" alt="Cat Care" width="243" height="70" id="catcare">
 
 
<img src="images/everybody_else.png" width="243" height="82" id="everybodyelse">
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
<img src="images/footer.png" width="1000" height="170" id="footer" />
</body>
</html>
Style Sheet
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 float: right;
#catcare {
 margin-right: 153px;
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 margin-right: 153px;
 float: right;
#siteBackground {
 background-color: #352E28;
#footer {
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#header {
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Hi all
I have a really weird problem and it only seems to affect certain pages I create but when I go into design view when looking to edit a page, some of the page doesn't display within DW, if I click in the area and go to split view I can see the relevant text showing in the code view or the link to an image if that is what is clicked on.
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Cheers
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Thanks for the reply Bregent, the interesting thing is it displays perfectly well in IE, Firefox and Chrome so not sure it is a code error however here is the code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>


<title>CCC Members Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="generator" content="Xara Webstyle 4. See xara.com/webstyle"/>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
table {
 font: 9pt "trebuchet ms", arial, sans-serif
body {
 color: #000000;/*themecolour6%0;*/
 background-color: #ffffff;/*themecolour6;*/
 background-image: url(CCCmembers_page_files/Elements_page4_topstrip.gif);
 background-repeat: repeat-x;
 font-family: "trebuchet ms", Arial, sans-serif;
 font-size: 9pt;
p {
 margin-top: 0px;
 margin-bottom: 0px;
 blockquote {
 margin-top: 0px;
 margin-bottom: 0px;
 color: #000000
 margin-right: 0px;
ol {
 margin-top: 0px;
 margin-bottom: 0px;
 olor: #000000
#header {
 position: absolute;
 height: auto;
 width: auto;
 left: -1px;
 top: 1px;
 visibility: visible;
#logo {
 position: absolute;
 height: auto;
 width: auto;
 left: 15px;
 top: 165px;
#hnavigation {
 position: absolute;
 height: auto;
 left: 20px;
 top: 129px;
 z-index: 5;
 background-color: #aa9df1;/*themecolour1;*/
#vnavigation {
 position: absolute;
 height: auto;
 width: auto;
 left: 20px;
 top: 320px;
.imageborder {
 border-left-width: 1px;
 border-left-style: solid;
 border-left-color: #FFFFFF;
#imagebar {
 position: absolute;
 height: auto;
 width: auto;
 right: 60px;
 top: 25px;
 z-index: 6;
.imagebox {
 border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
#content {
 position: absolute;
 height: auto;
 width: auto;
 left: 190px;
 top: 156px;
 right: 15px;
#content ul {
 color: #000000;/*themecolour6%0;*/
 margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
 list-style-image: url(Elements_page4_files/Elements_page4_bullet.gif);
#rightcolumn ul {
 color: #000000;/*themecolour6%0;*/
 margin-top: 0px;
 margin-bottom: 0px;
 margin-left: 13px;
 list-style-image: url(Elements_page4_files/Elements_page4_bullitt.gif);
#leftcolumn ul {
 color: #000000;/*themecolour6%0;*/
 margin-top: 0px;
 margin-bottom: 0px;
 margin-left: 13px;
 list-style-image: url(Elements_page4_files/Elements_page4_bullitt.gif);
h1 {
 font-size: 16px;
 color: #f18506;/*themecolour5;*/
 margin-top: 0px;
 margin-bottom: 3px;
h2 {
 font-size: 16px;
 color: #000000;/*themecolour6%0;*/
 margin-top: 0px;
 margin-bottom: 3px;
#content a:link {
 color: #f18506;/*themecolour5;*/
 font-weight: bold;
 text-decoration: none;
#content a:visited {
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#content a:link:hover {
 color: #aa9df1;/*themecolour1;*/
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 color: #f18506;/*themecolour5;*/
#leftcolumn a:visited {
 color: #999999;
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 color: #aa9df1;/*themecolour1;*/
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 color: #f18506;/*themecolour5;*/
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 color: #999999;
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 color: #aa9df1;/*themecolour1;*/
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 padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;
.rightcoltext {
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 position: absolute;
 left: -7px;
 top: 320px;
 width: 157px;
 color: #333333;
 background-color: #eeebfc;/*themecolour1%180;*/
 background-color: #efecff;/*themecolour1$ 78.5%, 100%;*/
 padding: 10px;
 border: 1px solid #aa9df1;/*themecolour1;*/
.parahead {
 font-size: 13px;
 font-weight: bold;
 color: #ee0404;/*themecolour9;*/
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I am running - Windows Vista Ultimate on a Core 2 Processor with 12 GB of Ram & Solid State Hard Drive. Everything on my system runs super smoothly except loading my site in Dreamweaver CS4 design view.
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I have used CS2 Adobe GoLive to create and manage a website (pro-prosperity.com). Now, I have CS4 Dreamweaver. I got a new site set up on Dreamweaver using the site management facility. I then have the contents of website available locally on Dreamweaver. I can edit files. But the main home page, index.html, is not displaying on design view mode for editing, although it displays everything on live view mode. I have struggled for days and am not getting any difference in attributes of index.html and another .html that is displaying fine on design view and is editable.
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The first thing you should do is to make sure that this feature is turned on (it's off by default):
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Issue with font dreamweaver cs4

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i have a powerbook with tiger and dreamweaver 8, and also i have a mbp with leopard and dreamweaver cs4.
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Many thanks

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Carolyn

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I am currently running Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 on my Macbook Pro. We use it on a daily basis to keep our corporate website up-to-date. During the past few weeks, we have developed a very odd issue in the DW code editing pane. The letter spacing is completely off, which is odd considering that the font is monospaced. A large space will appear between characters even though no space is actually there. I have included a screenshot below of some new code I recently entered. Notice the space between the form names and the apostrophes. It appears as though there is one space between the name and the apostrophe, however there is none. The code still works fine, but this becomes very frustrating when attempting to enter new code.
I should also mention that none of my code developed prior to approximately two weeks ago has been effected. Only when I attempt to enter new code is the spacing effected.
Is this a known issue? Any ideas of what could be going on?
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Thanks!
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Oh, you're welcome!
I know, so many of these things you don't find with a cursory review of menu-items and preferences. Then when you need them, you might not have noticed them first time through.
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Is there anything else that I need to do?
Thanks in advance for any help.

This is a maddening issue that's getting press in various forums, here and on Adobe's site, and all sorts of third party blogs, etc. I spent days wrestling with this with no luck, because in CS3, which I"ve been using for years under OS X, Extension Manager is broken (under Mountain Lion, at least). Installed CS4, CS5—nothing worked. The ""can't connect" error message appears instantly, suggesting that DW wasn't even trying to make the FTP connection, which led me to suspect Little Snitch or some other firewall issue, but this wasn't the case. I isolated login items, repaired permissions, booted in Safe Mode—all with no luck. Finally, I tried opening DW from a different user login and FTP connected. This, at least in my case, pointed to something in the user folder. I narrowed it down to the User/Library folder. Creating a new user and copying the Library folder over copied over the problem, as expected. New user was deleted, and I wen tinto the troublemaking User/Library folder to see what I could see. There were old files and folders there from previous installs, including CS3—speciifically in the User/Library/Application Support folder and, of course, in User/Library/Preferences. After deleting thiese, I found no further problems connecting via FTP in DW CS4. I presume that CS5 also would connect now, but I'm not keen to put it to the test. Under CS4, Extension Manager works fine, which is what I was looking to accomplish in upgrading from CS3. Moral of the story: Adobe CS installations do not like legacy files and folder either in User/Library/Application Support or User/Library/Preferences. Deleting these may work for you, too—at least it's another string to the troubleshooting bow, and this one can be a real bear. Good luck to all who have run into this.

Menus.xml issue when trying to launch Dreamweaver CS4

I have used Dreamweaver CS4 for many years on my Mac. I had a drive failure and have had to reload all of my applications from scratch as there seemed to be an issue with the Time Machine back up. Everything is working well apart from Dreamweaver CS4 which brings up an error message telling me to delete my menus.xml file and rename menus.bak to menus.xml which just doesn't work.
I have checked and this has been asked before but none of the previous answers that I could find will work for me. Any new ideas?
Apple MacBook Pro (mid 2010 model) running bang up to date version of OSX Mavericks.

dg28 wrote:
Thanks Preran
One issue appears to be that Dreamweaver has loaded the help and configurations files into a folder in applications rather than in application support. I do not have a Dreamweaver CS4 folder anywhere in applications support under my identity or than of the loacl admin.
You need to turn on your hidden folders to see it.
http://guides.macrumors.com/Viewing_hidden_files_on_a_Mac

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