New to Dreamweaver CS5, from FP2003

HELP! I'm new to Dreamweaver CS5, still learning my way around. I have an existing site built with FrontPage 2003, which I have imported and have played around with through DW.
However, I'm lost without my WYSIWYG editing options. I've read through the forums and obviously I'll need to rebuild my forms and my shared borders, but HOW, exactly? I'm somewhat familiar with HTML, but not as much with CSS...
Any tips and step-by-step advice is greatly appreciated!
Jill

I think you will have a big job ahead of you. DW is about as different from FP as it's possible to be, both in terms of general approach to using it and in terms of the quality of output. Do you have the space to spend a few weeks learning HTML and CSS before starting to work on this?

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Hi Günter
It's been a long time since I've been here. Hope life is treating you well.
Tried a lot of other DW extensions in the mean time
None of them match the robustness of ADDT
Most are buggy, one shot ponies that miss the bigger picture of providing integrated tools for development. All I've tried are a closed shop of functions and variables that you have to navigate by hand if you want any sort of amended functionality - on the whole a pretty poor lot.
And, I've looked at many of the off the shelf offerings that Adobe had told us that are clients wanted rather than bespoke solutions.
And no, most don't want them - they still just want concise tools/interfaces that are easy to learn, use and do what THEY want them to do. Not behemoth collections of options, bells an whistles. Naturally some do and I'm happy to oblige (who wants to write a forum from scratch!). So its not clear cut either way as seemed to be implied a year or so ago.
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- but as ever, the end users are out of the picture. Maybe there will be a new version, or completely new tools - that would be most welcome.
We still need good data tools. Integration with databases (none of my clients want to pull data from HTML tables - no matter how clever that is) and
CSS Style frameworks that take the grind out of positioning and styling every little item.
Gadgets and Gizmos - YUI3 looks like the one with the most backing - judging from YUI2 - have to keep and eye on that.
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Thanks for your replies!
When they enter the code it presents the same content to everyone. I like the idea of the database as this would allow for easier expansion as well if I decided to add more unique codes later. Again i'm totally new and I will need to research some of the keywords you noted, but I think i'm on the right path.
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