Text Align and Other annoyances

Question

I have upgraded from CS3 to CS5 and while i am mostly happy there are some really annoying bugs, features, or pieces of ill thought out logic in Dreamweaver.
I might be wrong but by default Dreamweaver is a a WYSIWYG editor. Therefore this should make it ideal for editing websites which have text in them. Lets assume that websites include single email campaigns, small static HTML brochure sites, through to large scale CMS websites. In each of these cases i might have the need to align a single piece of text to the right.
Now DW suggests everything like this should be driven by CSS. In in 90% of cases for general text layout i would agree i.e. default paragraph text size, default alignment, default line spacing, etc. These can then easily be adjusted throughout the website large or small by changing a simple bit off CSS in your style sheet.
But what if you just need 1 line of text to be different from "default" - CSS is not approrpiate here, and infact it would result in more code to achieve the same goal. why should i have to write a new style into my style sheet, and then link it with a class name, when a simple align="right" will work in that instance. In fact in all instances the chances are that piece of code will be shorter than the class="text-right" definition to apply the CSS (ignoring the CSS code too).
So why take the align buttons off the property inspector bar? Why make the developers life harder when he is using a tool to make it easier?
Another issue - which probably is more of a bug than anything. In code, Shift + Tab should outdent the code right. Highlight a block of code and this works. Why then does doing this for a single line of code delete the code?
I upgraded from CS3 because i was told that was the worst performing version of creative suite out there. And it was buggy as hell. But i am now finding that CS5 is not a great deal better - this applies through the other products too with Illustrator crashing as much as it ever did, il thought out removed features, etc. I am appalled by the quality of the new CS5 - especially as in my upgrade the fee was a good 30% more expensive than the american alternative.
And before you ask - the machine where i am experiencing this is more than adequate, Quad Core, 6gig of Ram, and on a fresh install of Windows 7.
An unhappy customer.

Answer 1

You may need to adjust your workflow to get the most out of CSS.
I find it works much better to identify the CSS IDs, selectors and class names I will be using in the site.  This bit of pre-planning gives me a basic stylesheet from which I can grab styles at will and add more to as needed.
/**BASIC LAYOUT**/
#wrapper { }
#header { }
#content { }
#footer { }
/**TEXT STYLES**/
#header h1 { }
#content h2 { }
#content h3 { }
#content p { }
#footer p { }
/**RE-USABLE CLASSES**/
.floatLt {float:left; width: 40%;}
.floatRt {float:right; width: 40%}
.clearing {clear:both}
.center {text-align:center}
.right {text-align:right}
/**LINKS**/
a { }
a:link { }
a:visited { ]
a:hover,
a:active,
a:focus { }
And if you plug all this into an external CSS file to which your HTML documents are linked, sitewide style changes take a minute or two instead of weeks and hours.
Nancy O.
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