How to easily layout a website in Dreamweaver???

I am having trouble laying out my website in dreamweaver. I have tried first using fireworks then importing to dreamweaver but it only imports as an image and I have also tried the table-ing method. To be honest, I'm a beginner and I don't know how to work with codes. I did work with them a few years back but I cannot recall how to use them. Can someone please help me find a simple way to layout my website with flexibility or at least more flexi that dreamweaver initially provides.
Thankss!!

Coding is a necessity if you are serious about getting into web design. And Dreamweaver is not really a beginner's tool. Adobe is trying to develop a tool called Muse ( http://muse.adobe.com ) which is currently available as a beta, but will be subscription only after it is released.
Otherwise, I think the best place to point you is this tutorial showing how to go from a Fireworks layout into Dreamweaver.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt1.html

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Subject: i am looking for assistence how to import an existing
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>> I do not know where the site files are. They are on my initial Mac laptop
>> computer, and I use Hostway as my server.
Do you mean you lost your local copy of your site files from on an old
computer?
Log-in to your Remote Server and GET the site files using DW or your favorite
FTP application (Cute, Filezilla, WS_ftp, etc....)
>> But I was distinctly told my the call yesterday with Adobe that I must have
>> CS5 to get my website, www.francescaferrari.com with Dreamweaver on my
>> second computer.
Which version of DW did you have before?
How many installations of DW did you have? You can have up to 2 at a time.
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Hi there,
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You need to put only the bold part into your code.
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How do I create a webpage in Dreamweaver WITHOUT using layers?

I'm reading a lot about how we should not use layers and
tables when creating a website in Dreamweaver because of something
called "absolute placement" (or something), which is the reason the
text in my website is constantly misaligned or overlapping when
opened up in Firefox. Although, I've never had this problem before
for the past three years I've been using Dreamweaver to create my
sites, which is what's most frustrating I think.
So, I guess I'm wondering how, then, do I create a webpage in
Dreamweaver WITHOUT using layers and tables? The only thing I've
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"tab" continuously until the cursor is somewhere close to where I
want it to be on the page. But that seems a little old-school (for
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someone who knows HTML just come in and fix the actual HTML code
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Ideally, I just want something to help me fix this problem
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this site for about a year now and am just now finally getting it
up online only to find that the way it looks online is not the way
it looks in Dreamweaver. I'd really really appreciate any
suggestions/advice.
Thank you so much!

Hello,
The first bit of advice, which you may already be doing, it
to learn HTML
and CSS.
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Instead of adding numerous to add spacing, for
example, you can use
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from other
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setting in their
browser than what you had in yours when you designed can make
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I promise you will walk away with a different outlook on how
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I hope that helps.
Take care,
Tim
"darkpwca" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I'm reading a lot about how we should not use layers and
tables when
> creating a
> website in Dreamweaver because of something called
"absolute placement"
> (or
> something), which is the reason the text in my website
is constantly
> misaligned
> or overlapping when opened up in Firefox. Although, I've
never had this
> problem
> before for the past three years I've been using
Dreamweaver to create my
> sites,
> which is what's most frustrating I think.
>
> So, I guess I'm wondering how, then, do I create a
webpage in Dreamweaver
> WITHOUT using layers and tables? The only thing I've
been able to do w/o
> layers/tables is to literally hit "enter" and "tab"
continuously until the
> cursor is somewhere close to where I want it to be on
the page. But that
> seems
> a little old-school (for lack of a better term) to
really be the way to do
> it.
>
> Also, if I've used a lot of layers/tables already in my
website, is the
> general recommendation for be to rebuild my site
completely w/o
> layers/tables,
> or is it feasible for me to have someone who knows HTML
just come in and
> fix
> the actual HTML code for me to make it all work?
>
> Ideally, I just want something to help me fix this
problem w/o having to
> hire
> someone else to come in, cause I've been working this
site for about a
> year now
> and am just now finally getting it up online only to
find that the way it
> looks
> online is not the way it looks in Dreamweaver. I'd
really really
> appreciate any
> suggestions/advice.
>
> Thank you so much!
>

How Do I Import a Website?

How Do I Import an Existing Website into Dreamweaver?
I would like to work on an existing website with Dreamweaver
8...
I cannot find any way to import a complete website, only ways
to browse for and open existing HTML pages.
Is there a way to simply import a complete site, complete
with folders, files, structure, etc and then work on and save or
publish?

Open DW. Press F1. Read about defining a site.
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> Thank you for your help Murray. This "Define a Site
Process"... Is this
> something I can find in Dreamweaver, i.e.; a button or
menu somewhere? How
> do I
> do it?
>
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> > Thank you to all! I can easily copy my site to my
hard-drive... I've
> > been
> > using
> > Teleport Pro, (have not tried Google or WebAssist),
but I cannot find a
> > way to
> > make Dreamweaver "see" that it's a site... All I
can do is browse and
> > open
> > pages. Where's the "Import" button?
>
> There is no IMPORT button for this. This is where the
'define a site'
> process comes in handy. When you define the site to
point into the root
> folder for the site you just copied, then you will see
all those files.
>
> --
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> Adobe Community Expert
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> "DJ Website Designer"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Thank you to all! I can easily copy my site to my
hard-drive... I've
> > been
> > using
> > Teleport Pro, (have not tried Google or WebAssist),
but I cannot find a
> > way to
> > make Dreamweaver "see" that it's a site... All I
can do is browse and
> > open
> > pages. Where's the "Import" button?
> >
> >
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> > If you already have a copy of the site on your
computer, simply create a
> > new site definition in DW and specify the folder
containing the web site
> > as the local site root. If you do not have a local
copy of the site, you
> > will need to download the entire site first.
Download it with an FTP
> > client or, as Murray suggested, a "web site
copier".
> >
> > --
> > Alec
> > Adobe Community Expert
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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>
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>
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http://www.kpdirection.com
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