Repositioning DIVs in a DW6 fluid grid layout

I've followed James Williamson's video tutorial on fluid grid layouts http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-dreamweaver-cs6/using-fluid-grid-layouts/ and have created something similar.
Williamson gives his DIVs fairly standard ID names. He starts with "header", ends with "footer" and places three DIVs in between: "article", "interview" and "artwork" (around 6:20 in the video).
The desktop layout is a standard three column layout with a header and footer while in the mobile layout all the divs stack up one on top of the other.
In Williamson's tablet layout, he adjusts the width of the DIVs so two site below the header ("article" and "interview") and he makes the third ("artwork") span the full width (he shows the three layouts in a browser from 15.00 to 15.20 in the video).
What I would like to do in the tablet layout is have the third column ("artwork") sits below "article" while the middle div, "interview" (which in my case is taller, due to having more content) sits to the right of them both.
Is this possible using DW6's fluid layout grid, or would I have to create the layout manually from scratch?

eddieduggan wrote:
What I would like to do in the tablet layout is have the third column ("artwork") sits below "article" while the middle div, "interview" (which in my case is taller, due to having more content) sits to the right of them both.
Is this possible using DW6's fluid layout grid, or would I have to create the layout manually from scratch?
No. The way that Dreamweaver's Fluid Grid Layouts work is by floating all divs to the left. New rows are created by setting the clear property to left. As a result, you cannot have a div on the right that spans the height of multiple divs on the left.
The divs must be displayed in rows in the same order as they appear in the underlying HTML. To get two divs on the left alongside a taller one on the right, you would need to wrap the left-hand divs in an outer div. The outer div can be snapped to the grid, but not the inner ones.
As Nancy says, failing miserably with the Fluid Grid Layout feature is much easier than succeeding. It reminds me of Dreamweaver's earlier love affair with "layers" (absolutely positioned divs) -- well intentioned, but fatally flawed.

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Following tutorials and the help files to use the fluid grid layout.
Start a blank page on a new site, which inserts the starter div and new css file
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I've tried searching for someone else having this issue and must not be wording the search properly, can't find anyone else seeing this. It's a weird one.
If anyone can point me to something to try so the workaround isn't needed, it would be appreciated.

OK try this workflow.
Create a new FGLayout and SAVE. This will save your CSS file with whichever name you give it.
Switch to Design View. Click on Mobile Display. Build your mobile layout first since this is what everything else is based on.
Insert a few Divs and don't worry about content. Just get the basic Div structure stacked one on top of the other like this:
<div class="gridContainer clearfix">
     <div id="div1">
          Div 1
     </div>
      <div id="div2">
          Div 2
     </div>
     <div id="div3">
          Div 3
     </div>
      <div id="div4">
          Div 4
     </div>
</div>
Hit Save and name your HTML file.   Do not edit the CSS file. DW will generate the necessary layout code for you.
Switch to Tablet Display.
Grab the right side handles to resize divs and move to row above as desired.
Save often during development.
Switch to Desktop Display and repeat.
Once your layout is built, test media queries by previewing in browsers by resizing viewport
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trying to make sense of the fluid grid layout.
can you use <div class> in fluid grid layout?
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Ben Pleysier wrote:
It's not my code, just rubbish I pulled out of the Bootstrap example sites....plenty more like that........ how about this beauty:
<div class="spb-row-container spb-row-full-width spb_parallax_asset sf-parallax parallax-window-height parallax-fixed spb_content_element bg-type-cover col-sm-12 no-shadow hidden-xs remove-element-spacing col-natural" data-v-center="true" data-top-style="" data-bottom-style="" data-midnight="dark" style="background-color:#009fc2;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;background-image: url(http://www.thesign.pt/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/FM.jpg);">
I thought we were talking about Bootstrap. No Bootstrap in the above.
<body class="html not-front not-logged-in no-sidebars page-node page-node- page-node-1172 node-type-static-page not-mobile region-content navbar-is-fixed-top" onunload="">
No Bootstrap here either.
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-4 col-md-offset-1 col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-1 col-xs-22 col-xs-offset-2 col-lg-offset-0">
Please allow me to explain. Bootstrap is based on 12 columns regardless of screen size. Translating the above we get the following for each of the screen sizes
large 3 cols offset 0
medium 4 cols offset 1
small 4 cols offset 1
extra small 22 cols offset 2
Our attention immediately falls on the extra small device with 22 columns that are 2 columns offset, total 24 columns. How can this be when there are only 12 columns available. Why would one have offset columns on the smallest screen size when we are already battling for real-estate. I think that if we make the classes believable we can safely ignore the classes for the extra small device. Continuing, we see the same number of columns for medium and small and the same offset. Being a mobile first approach, the classes that we assign to small will filter through to larger screen sizes making the classes for medium screen sizes ineffective. Looking at the 0 offset for large screen sizes?? Why do that when it is the default value. In other words, had Bootstrap been applied properly, the tag would look like
<div class="col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-1 col-lg-3">
The other two examples are even more ridiculous. Once again, I implore you to start learning Bootstrap and you will come to the conclusion that you are supplying us with gibberish.
I'm not supplying the gibberish it's the many websites that rely on frameworks, be they Bootstrap/Foundation/Wordpress - whatever rubbish they are using that I'm lifting this code from that are supplying it.
Take the Bootstrap form - every form input field I observe is wrapped in a <div> tag, why - it's bloated and redundant coding. Bootstrap, much like Wordpress was never invented to be used to build websites.
That IS my whole point - there are numerous examples of where Bootstrap IS NOT being used properly because people rely on something they no nothing about and end up with verbose class names splattered around all over their pages, bloated js and css scripts because they are the default files which come with Bootstrap.
<div class="col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-1 col-lg-3"> to me this is still nasty and overly complex 'class' mark-up. A page full of this tripe would drive me insane.
The very worst people you could advise to use Bootstrap are the people in this forum because most will have little knowledge of coding (that's why they turn to a framework) and end up with a page full of crap.
And I'm not verbalising you - you said it yourself. People use lots of 'short cuts' - it doesnt mean it's a good approach to take. No ones re-inventing the wheel apart from Bootstrap, who are obviously trying too. Media queries already exist to produce responsive design, learn how to implement them and free yourself from being entrapped by frameworks where you have to use their naming convention, their break points by default, their over bloated js and css files and somethimes rubbish html mark-up.

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debibrighthope wrote:
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