General Dreamweaver complaint

OK. It's been a while since I've complained about Dreamweaver but I've been working with it a lot and I just have to complain about it because it is so crappy.
1. Inconsistent behavior - Generally I find it's behavior inconsistent and way too Windows centric and Very Un Mac like in its "Sudo" finder.
2. Pallets - Currently the Pallets are never in the same place when I re open DW and behave poorly when DW is open.
3.Search and replace - One of the most irratic feature. It just quits working after a while. Sometimes restarting DW helps and sometimes it doesn't. A real time waster.
4. And it crashes A LOT
It seems to me that the code is just unstable. My system is relatively "fresh" and the laptop is about a year old.
Why don't I stop using it? Trust me. I'm looking for a better software alternative. Just because I haven't found anything "better" doesn't by default make the DW good or even the best. It just means that I haven't found anything that sucks less than DW.

Since this is a USER TO USER forum, not Adobe support, and as the
only way another user could reply is if they had that same problem
and had a solution, you may need to contact Adobe for help, or to
report problems or ask for new features directly at Adobe, click
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform - do be
sure to include all information, so they may reproduce the problem

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GENERAL DREAMWEAVER QUESTION

New to web design. Using Dreamweaver 8 and Photoshop CS2. Is
this the best combo for layouts and graphics for web design? Also,
I am trying to keep things organized and streamlined. What is the
best and quickest way to update dynamic content, including
pictures, video, and text? I have tons of questions and any extra
advice would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to strut your
stuff here!!! Thanks

> Is this the best
> combo for layouts and graphics for web design?
No - not in my opinion. The best combo would be Fireworks for
graphics, and
Dreamweaver for layout.
> What is the best and quickest way to update
> dynamic content, including pictures, video, and text?
I don't understand this question. What are you trying to
update?
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"dsmflash" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> New to web design. Using Dreamweaver 8 and Photoshop
CS2. Is this the
> best
> combo for layouts and graphics for web design? Also, I
am trying to keep
> things organized and streamlined. What is the best and
quickest way to
> update
> dynamic content, including pictures, video, and text? I
have tons of
> questions
> and any extra advice would be greatly appreciated.
Please feel free to
> strut
> your stuff here!!! Thanks
>

Is there a general dreamweaver template for astrology generators and the like?

My goal is to create a page that I can create a calculating generator of pretty much anything.
I guess what I need is direction, code sites, perhaps a template I could recalibrate to serve
these unique purposes.
I am grateful for any help.

There's nothing built into DW (or an extension of DW that I've ever seen) that can do that.
You would be looking at hand coding javascript to get that kind of set up. Search Google for "astrology javascript", there should be something out there already built that you can copy/paste into DW.
To get the exact functionality you're looking for may require hiring a professional to create it for you though.

Where's the general newsgroup for Dreamweaver?

As is obvious, I see the "AppDev" newsgroup but the general
Dreamweaver
group that I've found doesn't get much traffic. I suspect
it's not the
main group.
Any ideas?

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:34:06 -0600, Lee
<[email protected]>
wrote:
>Wait a minute, is it the m.d.html ?
No, just macromedia.dreamweaver .
Win
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Dreamweaver Accordian not working in IE6

I've added the Spry Accordian function to a page but it only
works correctly in Safari 2. On opening the page in both Firefox
and IE 6 only the first level displays, the second and third level
are invisible. Only after clicking in the general area where I know
they should be displayed do they appear. In Safari on the Mac the
function works perfectly. Can someone give me an idea what's
happening? Here is the link:
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Dreamweaver's browser check says this line is a problem but it
doesn't give me any clue what to do about it: <link
href="../SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
Thanks

CAcharlie wrote:
> I've added the Spry Accordian function to a page but it
only works correctly in
> Safari 2. On opening the page in both Firefox and IE 6
only the first level
> displays, the second and third level are invisible. Only
after clicking in the
> general area where I know they should be displayed do
they appear. In Safari on
> the Mac the function works perfectly. Can someone give
me an idea what's
> happening? Here is the link:
Windows XP: In my Firefox 2, I see 3 accordion headers that
all work correctly:
Gourmet Kitchens
Even more noteworthy features
Added comfort, convenience and safety
I have IE7 and those same items appears and change based upon
which one I click on. But I do see a small gap between one header
and the next. This may be due to some CSS rendering
issues/differences, but not sure.
FYI: You may get better/quicker responses for questions like
this one in the general Dreamweaver forum rather than this one that
is focused on Dreamweaver Extensions and is not highly trafficked.
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Dreamweaver 8, Vista 64 - login info keeps getting deleted

I'm using Dreamweaver 8 on Vista 64, but am having a strange
problem - the saved login info (FTP username and password) are
deleted for whatever site definition happens to be selected at the
time I close Dreamweaver. I have to go to Manage Sites and edit the
site definition to add them again. This always seems to happen,
every time I close Dreamweaver.
Login info saved for site definitions that aren't the active
site at the time Dreamweaver is closed appear unaffected.
Also, I downloaded the
updater
for 8.0.2, but when I try to run it a message says that the wizard
was interrupted, and my system was not modified. What gives
there?

> OK, thank you for the information.
>
> Does anyone know if the 8.0.2 updater simply never works
on Vista 64, or if it
> works for some people?
general dreamweaver / windows troubleshooting.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15481
there is some info in it about 8.02 and Vista
8.02 installer corrupt info:
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Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

Dreamweaver Momentarily Freezing When Moving Between Code and Design View

I have Dreamweaver CS4 and have had a problem that just started yesterday. I have rebooted my machine to no avail. The local copy and the live copy of the site are on two different servers that we access through a local network.
Dreamweaver slows to a standstill if I click to another program and then attempt to go back into Dreamweaver or if I switch between design and code view.
I haven't made any changes to Dreamweaver in the way of added extensions or updates. Is it possible that the cause of this could be either a server problem or a connectivity to the server problem?
Many thanks in advance for any help you could provide.
Andy

You can use CTRL+# to switch between Code and Design View.
By the way, this is the Dreamweaver Application Development forum which deals with questions about using server-side scripting languages like PHP or ColdFusion. General Dreamweaver questions should be posted in the regular Dreamweaver General Discussions forum.
And while I´m at it: please use descriptive headlines such as "how to switch between Code and Design View" for your posts -- mentioning your screen name "Goula129" is not helpful to other users.

Dreamweaver cs4 come with a web server or web app server ?

dreamweaver cs4 come with a web server or web app server ? Or
can be configured [has menues for] web server local ? When running
a server localhost
http://localhost/... , this can be
run/view a file[in local server] without an internet connection ?
yes without / no needed ?

123polis123 wrote:
> dreamweaver cs4 come with a web server or web app server
? Or can be configured
> [has menues for] web server local ? When running a
server localhost
>
http://localhost/... , this can be
run/view a file[in local server] without an
> internet connection ? yes without / no needed ?
Dreamweaver does not ship with a web server, you have to
install one, or activate one on your system (IIS or Apache for
Widows and Apache for Mac are the common choices). When you define
a site within Dreamweaver you can specify a testing server, as well
as a remote server. If the testing server and/or remote server are
available to your system without an internet connection, then you
can certainly test pages through the web server such as through
http://localhost/
If you are creating HTML pages, then there is no need for a
server at all for creating and testing your pages, but if you are
working with PHP or ColdFusion, then you will need a web server to
work with.
If you have follow up questions, you should ask in the
Dreamweaver General forum (general Dreamweaver usage questions), or
the Application Development forum (questions about dynamically
generated pages), depending on what you're looking to do:
DW General:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=12&catid=189&entercat= y
App Dev:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=12&catid=263&entercat= y
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When frequently switching between mobile and desktop view

When I frequently switching between mobile and desktop view I have to open the layers every time since they get closed/collapsed. Adobe may need to fix it for the next version.

You can use CTRL+# to switch between Code and Design View.
By the way, this is the Dreamweaver Application Development forum which deals with questions about using server-side scripting languages like PHP or ColdFusion. General Dreamweaver questions should be posted in the regular Dreamweaver General Discussions forum.
And while I´m at it: please use descriptive headlines such as "how to switch between Code and Design View" for your posts -- mentioning your screen name "Goula129" is not helpful to other users.

Web Photo Gallery - transparent

Would someone be so kind in helping me set the 'Photoshop
Flash web glallery 3' to transparent?
I have added the following line to the html code but with no
luck on IE6 or any other browsers.
" myFlashObject.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); "
Do I need to add something to the javascript or XML files as
well?
Any help would be most appreciated.

Why did you double post your question. Please do NOT ever do
this, because this will confuse and make things more miserable and
difficult for user-to-user participants's equitable participation
or keep tracking more than two forums under same topic by same OP.
Finally, please refer to your first post where I gave you a
tip or advice. Please kindly read it under general dreamweaver
discussion.
Good luck.

Spry tabbed panels - Different Hover Class for each tab

Already posted this in the general Dreamweaver section, but just realized there was a specific Spry section. So, my apologies for the repost.
I'm setting up spry tabbed panels, and I'm wanting to use an image for each tab, with the text already on it. I've figured this much out by creating a different class for each in the spry tabbed panel css.
However, I'd also like to have a second hover image for each tab. I'm having trouble figuring out how to set up separate classes for each tab's hover state.
Any help?
Thanks.

Just in case you did not notice the announce at the top of this forum's main page, I have copied it here.
Announcement: New to Spry, or the Spry forums?
Hide Details
Before you post a topic please verify that:
You are using the latest Spry files
The latest version of the Adobe Spry Framework is 1.6.1, this is the same version that ships with Dreamweaver CS4. If you use Dreamweaver CS3 (uses Spry 1.4), its wise to upgrade your files to the latest version. This can easily be done using the Spry Updater that can be found here.
Your question was not asked before
Using the search functionality on forums you can easily find out if your question has been answered before. While you are in search, you can specify the search locations. The Spry forum can be found under:
Adobe Labs > Spry Framework for Ajax
Yoru question can not be found in the existing documentation
Spry provides you with allot of documentation this can found on different locations. In the sidebar of this forum you can find a small summary of resources that will help you on your way.
If these options do not apply to your question, please be so kind to also supply the following information in your topic together with a clear description of your issue:
What browsers does this issue occure:
example: Internet Explorer 8 on Window 7 and Firefox 3.0 on Mac OSX
What version of Spry are using:
example: Spry 1.6.1 ( the version number can be found in license header of the .css and .js files )
What is the url of your website or page in issue:
example: http://www.example.com/page/in/issue.html
Step to reproduce the issue:
example: Scroll down till you find the header "help", there you will see a Spry Accordion. When you click on it it will not open or close.
So users can provide you with a better answer, without having to ask you for further details.
by Arnout Kazemier at Oct 23, 2009 2:47 PM
landon_tc wrote:
Actually, I do remember posting that, and have updated it with what worked for me. However, I could not recall posting it in a specific ajax spry forum, so I assumed I just posted in the general forum. Hence the current situation.
Yeah and my name is not Ben Pleysier.
landon_tc wrote:
Any help with the current problem?
Please have a look at this thread http://forums.adobe.com/message/2662019#2662019
I hope this helps.
Ben Pleysier

Another SPRY horizontal menu problem with IE7

I posted this before, with no responses, but I think
I've narrowed it down to a CSS response problem with IE7.0. If you
view the attached link in Firefox or Opera, the menu background
color responds correctly on the drop downs. In IE7, the
background-color is ignored, causing the menu to be translucent
and, uh, ugly. Has anyone else had an issue with the
background-color CSS attribute in the SPRY horizontal menu css not
working?
HELLLLLP! and, uh, Thanks,
Karl
Prototype
link using spry, css, ajax sprites and other magic.

>>
Regrettably, the silence from the forum has been deafening.
I'm not sure if folks are just wary of SPRY and AJAX issues right
now because they're so new or if it's the summer heat
>>
guess it´s all of that :-) But folks visiting these more
"general" Dreamweaver forums are not necessarily Spry experts
respectively might not even be interested in that -- you´ll
certainly get more response when posting Spry related questions in
the
Spry
forums @ Adobe Labs

Displaying rendered HTML text in spry detail region

Hi,
I have just started to play around with DW CS3 & spry and
love them!
I have a Master/Detail spry going from my database, but am
having a problem displaying the detail the way I need it. The mySQL
field is a BLOB for some HTML formatted text (I get the text
elsewhere using a Xinha textarea edit widget and load the the
formatted HTML text into my db). For example, my string is
"<h2>this test</h2><strong>xyz</strong>"
which is loaded into my db. I am using the dreamweaver ADDT export
XML functionality to generate my spry master/detail region.
My detail region is displaying the correct html associated
with the selected master table entry, but it's with the HTML tags,
not rendered as HTML (I don't want to see
<h2>title</h2>; I'd like to see title with <H2>
formatting).
It's much like what I think a RSS feed would be, but can't
find a way just to get the html to render because I don't have the
files externally to source an iframe or anything. (I tried a XLS
fragment transformation, just putting the detail record field that
I want in an XLS file, but that didn't do anything).
Any kind of guidance, hint, point and laugh but then tell me,
would be greatly appreciated. I also posted at first at ADDT and
then General Dreamweaver because I didn't locate this forum in the
Forum topic list, so when I did find this I thought this is
obviously where I should have first posted - sorry if anyone has
also been surfing around. Thanks so much so any info.

Hi Don,
Thanks so much for responding. I actually did do that, but it
seems like I might be doing it in the wrong place. I tried it in
the .js that I have in my header:
var dsList = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("./export.php",
"theSpecials/special",{sortOnLoad:"rating",sortOrderOnLoad:"ascending",distinctOnLoad:tru e});
dsList.setColumnType("detail", "html");
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display area:
<div style="overflow:hidden; width: 400px;"
spry:detailregion="dsList">
<div> 
<div id="detailDisplay" style="width:380px; "> 
<script
type="text/javascript">dsList.setColumnType("detail","html");</script>{dsList::detail}

</div> 
</div> 

</div>
Excuse the inline ugliness, will clean it up when it's
functional. But that doesn't seem to do it either. I am storing
that particular field as a blob in the mysql database, but I
already tried making that a VARCHAR which had no effect either.
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Spry menu / lightbox conflict

I apologize in advance if this is bad forum etiquitte as I have also asked this question on the general Dreamweaver forum.
If you open the following page in IE8:
http://02cada7.netsolhost.com/Stasik_Family_Website/janzofiastasik.htm l
and you go immediately to the pictures and activate lightbox everything looks great. But if you move your mouse over the spry menu first and then try the lightbox images, the spry menu does not fade into the background.
Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

I had another look at the Spry menu (HTML, JS and CCS) and there is nothing wrong with that side.
You could try to swap the two CSS file around as follows
<link rel="stylesheet" href="lightbox/css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical-2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="lightbox/css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
But otherwise, you need to seek out the culprit within the lightbox plug-in.

Converting from HTML to php

Generally Dreamweaver provides good support for changes to
templates, and
automatically updates all the files using a particular
template when you change
that template. However this breaks down if you change a
template, or a file, to
.php. Dreamweaver regards this as creating a new file, and
does not offer to
update links.
My master template was basicpage.dwt. I created a new dynamic
page, copied the
guts of basicpage.dwt into it, and then saved it as basic
page.dwt.php.
I didn't really expect Dreamweaver to recognise that this was
replacing
basicpage.dwt, but when I opened the template directory I was
surprised to find
that it did not show the extensions, just two files
basicpage. So I renamed
basicpage.dwt.php to basicphpage.dwt.php so I could tell them
apart. Then I
opened index.htm, attached it to basicphpage.dwt.php,
inserted some php to
verify that it worked and resaved it as index.php. I uploaded
to my file server
and verified that the php worked. I also found that my host
system loaded
index.php by default.
Next I opened one of the existing subsidiary templates,
attached it to
basicphpage.dwt.php, and resaved it. Dreamweaver saved it
with the correct
extension, but again did not recognise that I had changed the
template.
Next I opened one of the dependent files, attached it to the
new template, and
resaved it. Again Dreamweaver regarded this as creating a new
file, and did not
offer to update links. So when I convert each template I will
then have to open
every existing page using it, manually attach the new version
of the template to
it, and manually update all the links in it, or referring to
it. Drat!
It looks as if I should only convert those pages which I want
to be dynamic, and
only do so when I am ready to add the new functionality.
Clancy

Yeah. Clancy only wants to hear his truth....
No offense, Clancy, but my dogma beats your dogma.
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"(_seb_)" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> sorry for the dogma. I'll stop
>
> (_seb_) wrote:
>> I sure do get your point. learning all that stuff is
rather boring in
>> itself. That's what I've told myself for years,
until I dived into PHP
>> (with a book at first, but now I just go to
>>
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/)
whenever I need to learn something new.
>>
>> Once I did, and once I managed to setup a local
testing server on my
>> machine, I was surprised at how easy it was to learn
the basic stuff that
>> allows content architecture management. It took me
about two weeks to
>> learn the most useful techniques (how to generate
html code with php, how
>> to include remote files, how to use arrays, how to
use conditionals).
>>
>> Now that I know that, I enjoy building websites much
more, and I can do
>> it much faster. For one thing, you say you have 'a
total of 300 to 400
>> pages'. That's a problem with static sites. Pages
number has become an
>> irrelevant concept since I use PHP. My sites rarely
have more than 10
>> 'pages', even if the visitor can navigate through
vast ammounts of
>> content. Because PHP templates allow me to generate
pages on the fly,
>> depending on what content needs to be displayed, so
I can add content
>> without having to build new pages... That's a lot of
fun to build sites
>> that way. I also can offer much more to my clients
in terms of
>> flexibility and content management, which allows me
to charge them
>> more... Website maintenance is a breeze. If I had
known what
>> possibilities it would open and how it would
optimize my workflow, I
>> wouldn't have waited so long to dive into it.
>>
>> But of course there is a time for everything. I just
couldn't recommend
>> anything more than learning a server-side language,
to anybody who wants
>> to make a living of webdesign (and have fun doing
it).
>>
>> Clancy wrote:
>>
>>> "(_seb_)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> if you use PHP I don't see why you would use
Dreamweaver templates.
>>>> You can do with PHP more, better, and fatser
in terms of content
>>>> architecture (i.e. really functional
templates) than what DM templates
>>>> can do. AND, your dynamic PHP templates
won't be dependent on
>>>> Dreamweaver's UI.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have been working on my several web sites for
about four years now,
>>> and
>>> probably have a total of 300 to 400 pages. These
work, I think they
>>> look
>>> attractive, and user feedback has been
favorable. If I had nothing
>>> better to do, I could probably spend a year or
so working out
>>> how to do the same job without using templates.
The resulting new
>>> design MIGHT
>>> be significantly easier to modify, and perhaps
even to maintain, but the
>>> new
>>> pages would probably look much the same (I like
the way they look now!),
>>> and I
>>> very much doubt if the visitor would notice the
difference.
>>> I can see that there are a number of minor
improvements I will be able
>>> to make
>>> to my sites, once I have mastered php and mysql,
but the one major
>>> incentive I
>>> have for learning them is that I have a number
of photo albums, and it
>>> will be
>>> much easier to add new photos once I have set up
a database. I have
>>> already passed my biblical 'use by' date, and I
don't feel that I have a
>>> year to throw away just to make my web sites
comply with someone else's
>>> dogma.
>>> I have a lot more material I would like to add
to my various web sites,
>>> and I
>>> feel that this would be a much more profitable
use of my remaining time,
>>> to say
>>> nothing of it being much more fun.
>>>
>>>
>>> Clancy
>>
>>
>>
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