Duplicating and Editing a Fluid Grid Layout

Hi, I am making a website and I have copied and pasted a current page and just wanted to remove the text and pictures on the page that was a duplicate so I could put new info onto it. How come every time i remove a picture or text, it makes the same changes to the origional document? is there a way to get around this so I dont have to create a fresh page from scratch? It was just another page that I wanted with the same format and styling, but with obvioulsy different text and pictures on it.
Thank you
Chris

How come every time i remove a picture or text, it makes the same changes to the origional document?
This is certainly not the expected behavior, nor is it a behavior I have ever encountered. Would it be possible for you to upload the page to some web space that you control and post a link to that page? Also please tell us which text/images are being deleted that also affect the other page.

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Hi, Im very basic on Dreamweaver so bare with me,
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It's actually very easy to target the <body> of each page in an external stylesheet to change the background individually, just not with DW Templates.
Normally, what I would do is give each page's <body> tag an id, for example, on an about.html page...
<body id="about">
Then in the css, you would give the #about id a background-image setting...
#about {
background-image:url(about_bg.jpg);
Each page would have a similarly named id in the <body> and a corresponding #id in the css.
Side Note: Stick to lower case, alpha numeric file names for all of your pages and images. Use underscores or hyphens instead of spaces for them too. Servers are CaSe SenSitIvE and a link to Index.html (capital i) will not go to a page named index.html (lowercase i). It will work on your local system, just not on the server because the server sees the case structure difference as two separate files.

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Using DW6 (version 12, owned, build 5861) on Windows 7 64 bit.
Following tutorials and the help files to use the fluid grid layout.
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OK try this workflow.
Create a new FGLayout and SAVE. This will save your CSS file with whichever name you give it.
Switch to Design View. Click on Mobile Display. Build your mobile layout first since this is what everything else is based on.
Insert a few Divs and don't worry about content. Just get the basic Div structure stacked one on top of the other like this:
<div class="gridContainer clearfix">
     <div id="div1">
          Div 1
     </div>
      <div id="div2">
          Div 2
     </div>
     <div id="div3">
          Div 3
     </div>
      <div id="div4">
          Div 4
     </div>
</div>
Hit Save and name your HTML file.   Do not edit the CSS file. DW will generate the necessary layout code for you.
Switch to Tablet Display.
Grab the right side handles to resize divs and move to row above as desired.
Save often during development.
Switch to Desktop Display and repeat.
Once your layout is built, test media queries by previewing in browsers by resizing viewport
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I am a designer at the company I work for and we've been building repsonsive designs for the past 12months. I've decided that it would be good for me to try out the new fluid grid layout tool in Dreamweaver CS6 to see if we can improve the design process by using dreamweaver to allow us to quickly prototype my designs for mobile, tablet and desktop.
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Trevor

In Code View, open your FluidGrid.css file (or whatever you named it) when you created the layout.
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If you've been doing Responsive Layouts for 12 months, you're probably building desktop to mobile whereas FluidGrids build from mobile to desktop. It takes a little adjustment in thinking.
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I downloaded Dreamweaver CC 2014.1, started using it but cannot find Show Fluid Grid Layout Guides button, Resize LI.link sizing handle and 'move up a Row' arrow. Where can I find them?

I downloaded Dreamweaver CC 2014.1, started using it but cannot find Show Fluid Grid Layout Guides button, Resize LI.link sizing handle and 'move up a Row' arrow. Where can I find them?

You have the latest version (CC 2014.1 or 2014.1.1) in which the interface condenses Design View with Live View buttons in normal layouts. See screenshot.
However, in FGLayouts, Live View is the only option which poses some editing problems and has been highly criticized.
Is there any way to display the Design View in fluid grid pages?
New Features in CC 2014.1 October Release
http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/whats-new.html
New Features in CC 2014.1.1 February Release
https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/whats-new.html#Enhancements%20to%20Live%20View%2 0editing
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    dw-num-cols-tablet:        8;
    dw-num-cols-desktop:    12;
    dw-gutter-percentage:    25;
=====================================
Having said that, it might just be simpler to revert to an earlier version. Log-in to Creative Cloud Desktop app. Go to Filters & Versions > Previous Version. See screenshot.
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Just some quick background. I did HTML from 1994 through about five years ago by hand in vi on *nix systems. I learned HTML through 4.01, and never bothered with XHTML at all. I learned CSS through most of CSS2. The CSS3 and HTML5 stuff is all new to me, but it can't be that hard. I'm not exactly a novice in JS (I've done a fair bit of AJAX programming), but it's not even close to my primary language (I'm a Perl guy).
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Let me know? Thanks!
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Hi Ben,
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Also checked the content and code of my files, everything looks as it should:
The fluid grid layout style sheet IS attached to the page.
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http://www.ComputerSecurity.com/fgltest/
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If anyone has any suggestions that would be great?

Sudarshan Thiagarajan
The only template files I changed were the main css that I specify when creating a new FG layout.
I changed this for all three devices within the "style.css" page:
/* Tablet Layout: 481px to 768px. Inherits styles from: Mobile Layout. */
@media only screen and (min-width: 481px) {
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padding-left: 0.95%;
padding-right: 0.95%;
clear: none;
float: none;
margin-left: auto;
This the dialog box I get when trying to insert a new div (it used to ask me to insert "As a fluid element"

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I am using Dreamweaver cc 2014 and after applying css styles to my fluid grid layout I lose the resize,delete, duplicate an move up/ down ability.
For this reason I cannot build new pages by copying one page to create another.
I have a third style sheet that I use for the navigation styles and h1 -h6 ect. tags. and I am also using a css drop menu, can one of these be the problem?
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grid style sheet.
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I am using Dreamweaver cc 2014 and after applying css styles to my fluid grid layout I lose the resize,delete, duplicate an move up/ down ability.
This implies there is something broken in your FluidGrid Layout CSS file.   It could be something simple like a missing semi-colon or curly bracket.   Run your code through the W3C validation tools below to check for errors. NOTE: ignore reported errors in boilerplate.css
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
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