Making lay-outs in Dreamweaver

Hello;I have been studying 2 Dreamweaver learning books(and a lot of “background books“(php) the past 3 years.In one of them the author explained the different ways of using lay-outs in DW.(the “ready to go” css lay-outs,tables,etc.) However:I want to make my own designs,instead of using pre-designed lay-outs.(and tables)Therefore the possiblity of using AP divs seemed to be the best way. A disadvantage of the AP divs is,of course,that the divs are absolutely positioned,so that on a small screen the content is moving to the right. Because of the fact that making designs using AP divs,just like using a pencel or brush like a real painter does,makes designing a lot of fun(instead of playing in the plain code) I kept on using the AP divs,but instead of “position:absolute” I have changed this into “position relative”. I have also used a container in which I put all the other divs,just for keeping it all centered. At first site,it looked all fine,but when inserting other stuff,like plain tekst,extra code or images,everything went nuts,a bit like when using a table:all the divs weren’t positioned nicely anymore and I had to re-place everything again. The changes kept going on and,especially in the design-mode,it’s all messed up. So my question is: What lay-out method do you all,as experienced webdesigners,prefer to use,according to modern standards??(and still make designing a fun thing to do,without programming in the code) Of course with the use of Dreamweaver and all its toolbars,buttons and features. I really hope you have the answer for me!!! Many thanks for the help you are giving me!! Greetings igor

Hi Again
I tend to use whatever css based layout type I think is best suited for the design, (never tables for layout and absolute positioned items with caution, see my answer to your previous thread regarding % values) this may even include using 'trial' feature such as html 5 and css3 with jQuery or whatever.
The thing is with layouts, is to decide how you wish your page to look and function, then work out how-to-do it, that for me is what keeps it interesting. As an example I have even experimented with using a flash swf as a resizeable background image with animation, (works, but the browser must be resized by 1px to force the swf to resize on initial load of page).
PZ

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When some computers, especially older ones open it up, the get the second picture.
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I'm sorry didn't mean to send any corrupted files or links.
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Am i laying out my film right by imprtng small sequences in 1 big sequence

I am working on small portions of my film in there own individual sequence, then I import those small sequences into one final sequence. Is this the right way to lay out the film. When I render a small sequence, then go into the final sequence, it wants my to re-render. When I do, the footage is still glitchy in the big sequence and not the small one. I don't know if I'm making any sense but can someone help me?

The master sequence settings don't match the footage you are dropping into it. Every time you have to render a clip when you drop it into a sequence, that means something is not matching up. You need to make the master sequence settings match that of your smaller sequences.
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This new sequence will contain the settings you chose in the Easy Setup menu, and should match the format you captured.
Shane

Best way to lay out this scrapbook

I need some advice about the best way to go about this. I have a client who basically want me to publish her scrapbook. It's full of all sorts of color and b/w photos, drawings, newspaper clippings, you name it. I was thinking I should scan each page (8 1/2 x 11) as a separate pdf, then place each pdf as a separate page in the ID document. After about 10 pages or so the ID document is so bogged down that it takes half a minute just to nudge a frame. I hate to think of what things would be at 200 pages. Even if I divided the book up into 20 or 40 separate documents then reassembled them as a book, it would probably be so unwieldy that I wouldn't even be able to scroll the pages. Once this is done it has to be submitted to the printer as a pdf.

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ul.MenuBarVertical ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
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Problems and Issues in Laying Out Our Journal

Thank you to everyone who responded to my last post. On your advice, I have decided to persist in my efforts in making a template for our Law Journal using InDesign. There are several remaining issues I have though which, though small perhaps, are fairly critical. Perhaps someone might give me some guidance on this.
I am not sure which overall compilation method I should use. Ie) Either placing the individual word documents in or making a 'book' out of the individual articles. I would use whichever method can provide for the following conditions:
1) Continuity of page numbers. The first article should start at 1, and page numbers should NOT restart at the beginning of each article.
2) Continuity of footnotes. Foot notes SHOULD restart at 1 at the beginning of each article.
3) Page headers. Left side pages will have the page number and name of the Journal. Right page headers are to have the page number and the name of the current article. Would it be best to use different masters with the corresponding page headers on them? Would this maintain the above mentioned page and footnote continuities?
4) As per usual in books, there should be no page numbers on each article title page, which should always be starting on a right page.
5) Use of masters. Currently I have single masters pages set up for the half-title page
So, these are the issues which I have. I don't know how to incorporate these items in the template. It is fairly important that I have a good working template in order to avoid having to re-do all this work for each volume, as the person in charge of layout will change from year to year and likely not have the time to learn the ins and outs of InDesign. Any help on these issues would be wonderful!
Thanks!

I lay out an academic journal. This is my method:
Take in Word docs. Check style names to make them reasonably conform to style names in InDesign template. (They're case sensitive.)
Word tables are imported into a separate InDesign template that makes it easier to tweak them before re-inserting into article.
Word figures are saved as PDF/redone in Illustrator.
In InDesign, I open a blank file from a template and place the article, mapping Word style names to InDesign style names. I fine-tweak the tables in a separate InDesign file and place those pages into these pages.
I save each article in a separate file, make a pdf to send out for proofing.
After the first round of proofing, which includes the authors, I make corrections and put together a book according to the TOC.
For the second round of proofing and for production, I make a pdf of the book.
After production, I supply individual article pdfs for archiving.
The template has 3 master pages: one for the article opener, one (spread) for the main pages, and one for blank pages that has only the page number and no running heads. The template has 16 pages and I add pages in multiples of 4 if needed, or delete pages that aren't used.
I did one year with the entire issue in one file, but I found the book method much more efficient. Page numbering and footnote numbering is no problem.
best
R_W

Lay out mixed up in IE7

Hello: I have made a website in IE9. It looks great, but when seen in IE7, the maincontent is at a different place as it should be: all the way to the left,covering the menu. Does someone know how to fix this (for me) big problem??

Hi,sorry for my late reaction.
The publication dates I can't find on any of his books, but some of them are:
Flash CS4, dutch and english version
Dreamweaver CS4, dutch and english version
Dynamic websites with Deamweaver
Base course PHP5
He has cooperated as a linguistic reviewer for Adobe, to make the dutch version of Dreamweaver and Flash.
His personal website is www.kassenaar .com
greetings Igor
From: Murray ACP <[email protected]>
To: Igor Buitendijk <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 7:42 PM
Subject: lay out mixed up in IE7
all under the name of Adobe.
What are the publication dates? The only references I can find for Peter Kassenaar date from 2001, and there is no reference for him either on the Adobe site or the Adobe press site. Even in 2001, using absolute positioning as a primary layout tool was regarded as a sub-optimal method. There are reasons for this, too, primarily related to the fact that as a content container, absolutely positioned elements create havoc on your page when the text view size is changed. Enlarged text will cause the container to expand vertically, and since absolutely positioned elements are removed from the normal flow, this enlargement cannot push adjacent elements aside, so the text will begin to overlap the adjacent content. Add to that a secondary problem with absolutely positioned elements when the page also contains centering elements, and you have a tool that cannot be suitable for use by someone who doesn't have a comprehensive grasp of CSS positioning.
If Kassenaar is really recommending (although I doubt it) that one use positioning for layout, then he should be ashamed of himself.

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The Performance Tester is currently unable to run a speed test for your broadband connection. Please try again shortly, however if this problem persists, raise the issue with your service provider.
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Connected
Connection time
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Downstream
4,512 Kbps
Upstream
448 Kbps
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ITU-T G.992.1
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I am helping a friend (an 83 year old Benedictine monk, in fact, but that is another story) lay out a 300+ page play, and I am finding it very time consuming. I am using Indesign CS3 (5.0.1) on a PC with XP SP2.
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Long version:
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Why not use tabs instead of spaces as you tried in Word originally? It would be easier in ID. Would the following do what you want?
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Yes, each tab would have to be positioned manually, but I've tried it and its pretty fast. Just leave the tab palette open all the time.
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On iPhoto, I can no longer access the 'Classic' option which would lay out my photos on the page. It will send them as attachments only. I need the page layout for my work. Any thoughts as to why this has changed? It used to fully lay out the photos so I could add notes and detailed information before I sent them. I am thinking it is something simple that I have just missed...

The "Photos" view has been replaced by the Media Browser.
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For example, in the File > Open dialogue in Preview I am seeing this in the sidebar.

Sub: Tax Combinatiom. Tax rate, tax Amount in the print lay out design of t

Dear all,
Sub: Tax Combinatiom. Tax rate, tax Amount in the print lay out design of the A/R Invoice
I have to Create a Print Lay out design of the A/R invoice for the Indain standrad please provide me some solutions for the following problems to locate the Tax combinations,Tax rate and the Tax amount in the PLD A/R Invoice ,
PACAKGE SAP B1 2005B
Need a standrad solution as per the requriment
Eg: Row Level
Tax Code created is BED+VAT
Tax combination details is
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Excise                     16%
Ecess                    2%
Hcess                    1%
VAT                       4%
Row No     Item Qty   UnitPrice Tax code Total(LC)    Tax Amount
1             X      10     10000      BED+VAT   100000      21139
                                         (Excise =16000,Ecess=320, Hcess=160, VAT=4659)
2              Y      5      20000      BED+VAT    200000       42278
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In Print Lay out Design Requried is the deatils of Tax code combination , Rate and the Tax Amount in the followig way
Excise    16%   =48000
Ecess     2%    =960
Hcess     1%    =480
VAT       4%    =13977
Please send the feedback as early as possible urgently requried
for the further details send the feedback
Reagrds
Mr.Chitrasen

Hi experts,
       Pls anybody have an answer to my question, i'll be very thankfull to u,
                 I wanted to display the Tax Break ups in Invoice say,
ECess            25
Vat                 56
Excise duty    32
I've tried a lot with many of the SAP Forum thread but the results is not satisfactory..am using SAP Business One 2007 b
pls anybody who can guide me with step by step PLD creation for this problem.
I done the below steps in PLD
In Repetitive area 1
Field_1: Table-> OSTA
              Column-> Type
Field_2 : Table-> OSTA
              Column -> Code
Field_3: Table-> OSTA
              Column-> Rate
Field_4: Table-> OSTA
              Column-> Name
Field_5: Table-> A/R Invoice Tax amount per document
                Column-> Tax amount
Field_6 : Table-> A/R Invoice Tax amount per document
                Column-> Base amount
Field_7 : Formula -> Field_6 * Field_8
Field_8 :   Formula-> Field_1==1
      NOW I SORTED REPETITVE AREA 1 WITH 'SALES TAX AUTHORITIES;cODE' AND TICKED THE CHECK BOX 'SUMMARY'
    AND MADE THIS REPETITIVE AREA INVISIBLE.
IN Repetive area footer
F_01 :    Formula->   Field_4
F_02 :    Formula->   Concat(Round(F_rate,0), '%')
F_03 :    Formula->   Round(ColSum("F_tax_amount"),2)
I grouped the Repetitive area footer as Group 1
                            here i get the result but the Tax Rows are repeating and Tax amount varies for VAT for each rows
pls help me guys...
               Thanks in advance,
               Dinesh
Edited by: Dinesh S on Dec 23, 2011 1:28 PM

How do I create a table of content in a Pages Template (lay-out) document?

Dear all,
I recently started designing a brochure in Pages, using a lay-out document. The document counts over 100 pages. Now I need to make a table of contents and I just don´t get how to do this...
Any help is more then welcome!
With warm regards,
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That sounds more like a book than a "brochure".
You can not make a TOC in Layout mode. The TOC only scans the styled text in the default text area (between the margins) of Word Processing documents and ignores everything else.
Peter

Devanagari font in layed out in Indesign (using IndicPlus) does not export correctly to a PDF.

Namaste InDesign gurus,
I have a problem at hand. Wondering if anyone has encoutered similar problem before? Any help is greatly appreciated. And if you're in San Francisco bay area - I can buy you a lunch :-)
Short description: Devanagari font in layed out in Indesign (using IndicPlus) does not export correctly to a PDF. All the ligatures are assembled and displayed in the PDF.
Adobe Indesign Version: InDesign CS5 Design Premium - regular U.S. version (not ME).
Steps I took:
I purchased CS5 Design Premium and also purchased the IndicPlus plugin to author sanskrit documents in InDesign. I create Sanskrit text using either of the following methods.
1) Itranslator
2) Paste the devanagari from the Itranslator directly into InDesign or paste it first into MSWord and then copy from MSWord and paste it to Indesign.
It doesn't matter how I paste it. After I apply the IndicPlus character/paragraph style so that the sanskrit looks good in InDesign, when I try to export it to a PDF. The PDF does not display the ligatures currectly. It just lists all the characters in order without assembling.
I've spent a lot of money buying CS5, IndicPlus and then I can't even create a simple PDF document from InDesign. It is very frustrating.
Has anyone been able to successfully export a sanscrit document from InDesign PDF ?
(Please let me know if my problem description needs more fleshing out).
I could create the PDF from MSWord directly but I'm trying to use indesign to layout my book. If InDesign cannot export to PDF I'll just have to use MSWord for my book layout. I've spend probably scores of hours trying to learn InDeisn and formatting my book content - seems like it is all going to be waste.
Is MSWord the best choice or only choice for laying out books that have sanskrit text in them?
-Ravi

Has anyone been able to successfully export a sanscrit document from InDesign PDF ?
Not Sanskrit, no, but plenty of Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, and other languages written in Devanagari script - so it should be possible. I don't even use IndicPlus, which by most accounts makes working with Indic text much easier.
1) Itranslator
I've never seen this, but a quick Google led me to the homepage of ITranslator for Windows, where I saw this:
Itranslator 99 (Build 1.3.0.86) & New Beta Version
uses 8-bit true type fonts and is compatible
with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
For more information, click here.
Itranslator 2003 (Build 2.0.0.38) & New Beta Version
uses 16-bit Unicode-compatible fonts and is working
only on Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003.
For more information, click here.
So, if you're using ITranslator 99, there's the problem - those "8-bit true type fonts" won't work in InDesign. Can you post a sample of the text you're trying to paste into InDesign? Name the font(s) you are using, both in Word and in Indesign, and if possible make a small sample of the text available for us to test. It's also possible that InDesign is using a substituted font, which could cause this problem. So, if the font name in InDesign has brackets around it, you know that InDesign doesn't actually have that font installed and is auto-substituting. Also, if you go to View -> Screen Mode -> Normal and the text is highlighted pink, you know that the font has dropped. (Unless the highlighting for dropped fonts was turned off - check in Edit -> Preferences -> Composition and make sure that "Substituted Fonts" is checked.
Also, for what it's worth, is there any way you could Place your text instead of copying and pasting? This may be cause of your problem - but even though it probably isn't, it's still worth a try.
Lastly - no, I've found InDesign to be superior for typesetting for almost all languages, but the learning curve is pretty steep, and many of the problems faced by people working in non-English languages are not easy to research when you have a problem.

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I created a new site for a client that has about 160 pages, three user login levels, site security, php, forms, . . . The client has a staff member who will make updates to pages with changing content but now wants access to the entire site so she can change wording on other pages as well - she's their new communications coordinator and it certainly makes sense to me. But I'm worry about giving her access to the entire site - I've since learned about check in and check out in Dreamweaver. Since I can't just throw pages in a directory for her to access via ftp (have set that up for one staff member creating gis maps), I'm wondering if this check in check out option is the better way to go for us.
She will use Dreamweaver, like me. Although we do not share the same office or have access to the same network. The only sharing we can do is on our hosting services server. Can I "check out" files I need her to leave alone and leave them that way? That way she'll have access to all of the primary content pages, not the scripts, css, includes, admin, js, bin, etc files. It should make life easier for her, too, I think.
What's common practice for this? And how does synchronization fit in?

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What's common practice for this?
This situation really needs a proper Content Management System (CMS): Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Expression Engine all come to mind.
She's a content contributor, you're the system admin. She needs a bulletproof browser-based editing environment to do her thing without worrying about anything else.
Down the track, she'll probably want repeat content that she can control on different pages, content expiry, scheduled content, categories, tags, sidebars, headlines: all standard CMS features.
Using Dreamweaver and Check In/Check Out is just going to create one issue after another.
The current solution was probably adequate in the past but it's reaching the limits of its scalability. It's really time for a new solution.
Have you considered a CMS?

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