IWeb - Dreamweaver

Can someone please point me in the right direction so that i can find a step-by-step guide to importing a website I created using iWeb into Dreamweaver..
So far all attempts have failed as the site layout looks a mess when I try..
Many thanks for your help in advance..
The idea is that my colleagues can help maintain the website using Dreamweaver in their 'Windows PCs'
Cheers, B

You do not import a website.
You just open the webpage to edit the code. You can create a Site to manage the pages but how they look is another matter.
Any webpage looks crap in Dreamweaver in.
Why spend 600 euro/dollar when you can do the same for a 20th of that cost. Or even for free.
It's not an iWeb issue.

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I'm sure this has been discussed, but I'll be darned if I can come up with the right search terms.
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Is there a way to modify an iWeb page with Dreamweaver?
How where can I find instructions for this, or even better, a simple "not possible" saves me time. .
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Yes. In the HTML snippet, first place the CSS Style inside <style type="text/css"> </style> followed by the HTML
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dl.newdl-def
width: 35em;
padding: 0;
.newdl-def dt
width: 6em;
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<dt>term
<dd>definition text
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By jumpmenu are you referring to the navbar at the top? It's well known that IE is not friendly with iWeb's navbar. The workaround for that is to create your own Text Based Navbar.
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My solution may not be the most technical but it works. We use a combination of iWeb, dreamweaver and straight code on our site. We lay a graphic in where the flash is going to go then we replace the code with the flash player. You have to make sure the flash is in a div and is identified as a object.
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I need help finding a workable web program that is not CSS based. I tried IWeb and it just won't work for me. Way too limiting. I've been using a 12 year old copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver, but the new Dreamweaver is CSS

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Although not supported anymore, iWeb does still function using Mountain Lion...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/mountain-lion.html
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http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Mobile-iWeb.html
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yes you can use other websoftware to modify iweb sites either after it is on the webserver or if you save it to a folder before publishing.
I tried the demo of Dream weaver and it worked fine..also I used Rapidweaver which works too. Heck you could use anything that can edit HTML which is really just a text file.
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iweb looks nice and as long as people are viewing it with broadband you'd be ok but dialup users are "toast" even on a simple site.
I got the demo of rapidweaver which is not as intuiative but in someways is more complete and have done a 3 page site.. others are developing themes for it and also there are plugins which add alot of functionality.
at $35 USD it is cheap and if you go to http://www.screencastsonline.com there are 3 videos to show you how to use it and a discount code.
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Hi
The %20 is caused by iWeb pages being imported into Dreamweaver as utf-8, but should not cause any problems in normal text just in links.
The lack of border styles may be caused by missing javascript or image files, or that this style of border is css3 which is implemented in Safari and now in Firefox, (can be emulated using javascript), without seeing the code for the class I cannot help further although the fact it is being used in an absolute positioned element does point to it being javascript/image generated.
The class may be in the javascript file not the css.
PZ
www.pziecina.com

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