Trouble in Dreamweaver with fluid grid layouts

Hi! This is my first time posting here. I have been having intermittent problems in the fluid grid layouts. The sizing handles that are supposed to be there in a fluid element/div sometimes disappear along with the duplication icon and the arrow that moves a div/element up to the previous row. For instance I am working on a lesson in my online class for Dreamweaver that is asking me to style an unordered list for a menu. I want to make it into a horizontal menu where each item is 3 columns wide. Without the handles I cannot size the items in the list nor "bump them up" next to each other. Does this make any sense? Sometimes, they are there and sometimes not. Mostly not there. This is very frustrating! Can someone offer any solutions?
Paula Jo Nyman

I have the same Issue, I have been trying to get it resolved for a while now, but the live customer support is terrible, I feel like they don't read the initial question and it frustrates me how I am constantly asked questions about my question that is CLEARLY covered in the initial Question. I Have been on hold on the phone for some time now, if I get this resolved I will post an answer. It does disgust me how adobe are slowly parring the technical support over to its users.

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What does the green highlight mean when working in Live view of a Fluid Grid Layout using Fluid Grid Layout Div Tags? Sometimes they show up, but sometimes they don't. I think it has something to do with the width setting but I can't figure out what the rule is or what the highlight indicates.
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THANK YOU!!

Brian McNay wrote:
the green highlight sometimes disappears when modifying the width property of the div. My question is what does this signify?
If you change the width of a div manually in Code view or in the CSS styles panel, Dreamweaver ceases to treat it as a fluid grid layout div, and the green highlighting disappears.
To be treated as a fluid grid layout div, the width must be adjusted by dragging the handles in Design view. Dreamweaver snaps fluid grid layout divs to the grid that is defined when you first create the page, and it calculates the width and margins to many decimal places. If the width and/or margin doesn't match the grid dimensions, the highlighting disappears, and the div is treated as any other div.
It's not a bug, nor are fluid grid layout divs any different from normal ones. The idea of the grid and the highlighting is to allow you to create a responsive layout according to a hypothetical grid. Once you've created the basic structure, it's best to turn off the visual guides anyway.
Personally, I think that the implementation of fluid grid layouts in Dreamweaver CS6 leaves a lot to be desired. The basic idea is good, but it's difficult to use if you don't have a solid understanding of CSS.

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I am making my second website with Fluid Grid layout and as with my last one, it seems I can't use CS6 transitions. Each time I go to add a new transition, Dreamweaver stops working and shuts down. Should you be able to use the transitions function with CS6 transitions or not? In the end, what I want to do is create a behaviour where one image is swapped with another with a click (not a rollover as it won't work on mobiles, I believe).
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Add a link to jQuery's Latest Library to your document <head> tags.
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
Add the jQuery function code to <script> tags in your document. I typically put them right above the closing </body> tag.
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
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        $("#two-a").toggle('slow');
    $("#three").click(function () {
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</script>
</body>
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Without seeing your code, I'm going to guess that your CSS transition logic is incorrect or you're attempting to add transitions to the FluidGridLayout.css which is never a good idea. Always use a separate, external style sheet for your manually added content styles. Changes to either boilerplate.css or the temperamental FluidGridLayout.css files can result in problems.
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Problems with fluid grid layout live site only showing phone view in Chrome and Firefox Feb 2015

Hi all,
I have done a complex fluid grid layout using DW 2014 CC. The site has now gone live on the web masters server setup.
Up until now the layout of the site has been working fine and responding to screen size.
Early this morning in the USA the site stopped working. The layout for some users, not all, is only showing the phone view, and takes a long time to load.
This is happening in Chrome and Firefox, but IE is displaying the site properly.
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I am using BC for the test site, and one user having this problem can see that version of the site OK.
I noticed that Chrome has done some updates recently Chrome Releases
Has anyone else come across this problem with Chrome and Firefox with their responsive layouts?
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Hi Ben,
Yes, thanks for this link. The Travel Health Website is one of ours, hosted on BC, and no reported problems so far. We also have another large BC website with ga code in it and users are not reporting problems with it. The Headless Way
However the problem website is hosted elsewhere on a different platform to BC. We have been developing it for three months now, and no problems so far until yesterday. The problem of the site taking ages to load, and timing out seems to be happening with about 10% of users in the USA. http://www.harrisonassessments.com/
The web developer found a user in NZ who was experiencing the slow display problem. They looked at the site with Chrome, Firefox and IE. The site would only display on IE. When the developer removed the google analytics code, the site displayed fine on all browsers for the NZ user. We are waiting for users in the USA to wake up and test the site.
So the problem definitely is related to the ga code and the responsive layout that was done by me in DW2014.1 fluid grid layout. So the related problem of DW2014.1 not being able to load htm files with ga code in them looks to be a good clue to what is going on here.
As there was a bug report for DW2014.1 and google analytics code made in the other thread, I would be interested to know if that was ever solved.
It is interesting that you are pushing Bootstrap and Foundation on me. (Big square websites here I come! lol)
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Adapt existing web site with fluid grid layout

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if I could take a exisiting website and using Dreamweaver CS6 (which I don't owned at the moment) "easily" create associated fluid layout for tablets and smartphones.
Or do I have to start a new website "from scratch" to get the fluid layout?
I'm just beginning with website creation (only 2 at the moment) and I tried out Dreamweaver 5.5 at the beginning of 2012... since I didn't find any other tools that could do the job like I feel Dreamweaver can, I'm in the process of convincing myself I should buy Dreamweaver CS6.... I won't hesitate much longer if I could take a existing website and be able to easily adapt it to fluid layout.
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You would have to start over with a whole new Layout. Once you get that designed, then you would need to insert content. There is no magic button for converting existing sites to Fluid Grid Layouts because it's more complicated (3 CSS layouts instead of one).
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/introducing-media-queries.html
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for-responsive-web-design/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
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I'm using the fluid grid layout. I have multiple columns that are actually fluid grid layout columns done by Dreamweaver. I'd like them to extend as high as each other (all to the maximum height of each other) within the same section. An added catch is that in the desktop layout, I have three side by side under one that takes the whole width of the page. On tablet size, it's 2x2 in a square grid. On mobile, they're vertically stacked. I'm trying to get it so that background colour and/or borders looks decent and is fully balanced, no matter which layout is hit with the fluid layout. The columns reflow, no problem. But the height of any background and/or border is variable.
Any help on fixing this?
Example at: https://music2help.thoughtburst.net/
The example doesn't have borders or colours, as it looked silly unbalanced. The music2help.css is the only one I'm modifying manually.
Love the fluid grid layout, but I need a way to make it behave decently with backgrounds/borders. Any help would be hugely appreciated!
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I tried the solution Nancy posted. It altered things, but doesn't seem to do the trick.
Just some quick background. I did HTML from 1994 through about five years ago by hand in vi on *nix systems. I learned HTML through 4.01, and never bothered with XHTML at all. I learned CSS through most of CSS2. The CSS3 and HTML5 stuff is all new to me, but it can't be that hard. I'm not exactly a novice in JS (I've done a fair bit of AJAX programming), but it's not even close to my primary language (I'm a Perl guy).
I'm "stuck on" wanting to use Fluid Grid Layouts. It's billed as one of the selling points of DW CS6, and I really like the concept and results. I just want the results embellished a little, namely with sensible identical heights on grid containers set in the same row, so that you can apply background colours, dropshadows, and borders. That's really all I want to do that it doesn't already do.
I have a test page at: http://music2help.thoughtburst.net/ that you can try with your Quick Columns. I'd be interested to know if you can get it to work.
Here's the catch, though... Resize the browser, shrinking it inwards. (I suggest Firefox, as Chrome only shrinks so far, and you won't get to Mobile width.) As you can see, on a Tablet, one of the columns that should be equal height actually moves up a row and should be equal height with the row that, on a desktop, would take the entire width of the page area. So that's like a 4-up output in printing terms. At Mobile size, the entire thing is vertical, so none of the columns should be resized.
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OK. Let's just paste the script into your HTML page and see if that works.
Open your page in code view.
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<script src="fancybox/maphighlight.js"></script>

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Nancy O.

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I have the nivo slider pretty much set up on my home page, with one exception. I have a sidebar to the right of the slider and the slider bullets end up above the sidebar as opposed to below and centered below the slider. If I remove the sidebar and set the slider div to the full width of the page, then the bullets end up where the should be (centered and below the slider).
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How can I get a background image png or jpg original size 1040w by 840h to scale down in the tablet and mobile layouts in Dreamweaver CS6 fluid grid layout?

Adding one of these in your CSS should do the trick...
background-size:contain;
or
background-size:cover;
Depending on the layout of your background image, one may work better than the other.

How to increase the width of the Fluid Grid Layout from 1008px to 1080px?

Good day all, I'm experiencing a slight problem with Fluid Grid Layout in Dreamweaver CS6. I want to increase it's width so that it could be one with my Photoshop CS6 design (which is 1080px), the problem is that I can't as I am limited to 1008px. How do I increase the width? I ultimately am re-coding my design as my client demanded a responsive design but I'm clueless in that avenue which is why I resorted to re-doing everything under the set & safe default (Fluid Grid Layout) that doesn't require me to udnderstand media queries at an expert level.

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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/introducing-media-que ries.html
CS6 Fluid Grid Layouts (6 min video)
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CS6 Fluid Grid layouts (17 min video)
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Step-by-Step tutorial -- Building Fluid Grid Layouts in DW CS6
http://www.adobe.com/inspire/2012/08/fluid-grid-layouts-dreamweaver-cs 6.html
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Nancy O.

Fluid Grid Layout Alignment Issue

I'm using Dreamweaver CC Fluid Grid Layout. This is my first time using Dreamweaver, (and first time posting to Adobe Community) so I don't have a ton of experience. Somehow, the whole body of all my pages has been aligned left and I can't find anywhere in the CSS or the HTML of the individual pages that would make it do so. I even tried inserting a body: align: center in the CSS and also in the HTML of each page and it just won't respond. Does anyone have any ideas? I'd really REALLY appeciate some help with this because I'm totally at a loss. Below is my CSS and the HTML for my index.html .
CSS
@charset "UTF-8";
/* Simple fluid media
   Note: Fluid media requires that you remove the media's height and width attributes from the HTML
   http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fluid-images/
img, object, embed, video {
          max-width: 100%;
/* IE 6 does not support max-width so default to width 100% */
.ie6 img {
          width:100%;
          Dreamweaver Fluid Grid Properties
          dw-num-cols-mobile:                    4;
          dw-num-cols-tablet:                    8;
          dw-num-cols-desktop:          12;
          dw-gutter-percentage:          25;
          Inspiration from "Responsive Web Design" by Ethan Marcotte
          http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design
          and Golden Grid System by Joni Korpi
          http://goldengridsystem.com/
.fluid {
          clear: both;
          margin-left: 0;
          width: 100%;
          display: block;
          color: #FFFFFF;
          font-family: source-sans-pro;
          font-style: normal;
          font-weight: 200;
          float: left;
.fluidList {
    list-style:none;
    list-style-image:none;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
/* Mobile Layout: 480px and below. */
.gridContainer {
          margin-left: auto;
          margin-right: auto;
          width: 86.45%;
          padding-left: 2.275%;
          padding-right: 2.275%;
          clear: none;
          float: none;
body {align-content:center}
#top {
          margin-left: auto;
          margin-right: auto;
          text-align: center;
          font-family: source-sans-pro;
          font-style: normal;
          font-weight: 600;
#top {
          background-color: #1f1f1f;
#mainnav {
          background-color:#1F1F1F
#menuSystem {
.menuItem {
          margin-top: 9px;
          margin-bottom: 2px;
          padding-top: 2px;
          padding-bottom: 2px;
          text-align: center;
          color: #FFFFFF;
          background-color: #1f1f1f;
          width: 100%;
          clear: both;
          margin-left: 0;
          padding-left: 0px;
          -webkit-box-sizing: content-box;
          -moz-box-sizing: content-box;
          box-sizing: content-box;
          letter-spacing: 2pt;
          text-transform: uppercase;
.gridContainer.clearfix #top h1 {
          color: #FFFFFF;
          font-family: fredericka-the-great;
          font-style: normal;
          font-weight: 400;
          text-align: center;
          text-transform: uppercase;
          letter-spacing: 5pt;
#hero {
h2 {
          font-family: source-sans-pro;
          font-style: normal;
          font-weight: 200;
          text-align: center;
          margin-right: 0%;
          margin-top: 10%;
          text-decoration: overline;
          color: #FFFFFF;
#footer {
          background-color: #1F1F1F;
          color: #FFFFFF;
          text-align: left;
#wrapper {
          background-color: #2D2D2D;
          font-family: source-sans-pro;
          position: static;
          display: inline;
#childpageimage {
          width: 59%;
          padding-top: 0px;
          padding-bottom: 0px;
          padding-right: 2px;
#content2 {
          color: #FFFFFF;
          font-family: source-sans-pro;
          font-style: normal;
          font-weight: 400;
          text-align: left;
          text-indent: 0px;
          padding-left: 10px;
          padding-right: 10px;
          width: 100%;
          clear: both;
          margin-left: 0;
          float: left;
contentgallery {
          color:#FFFFFF;
table {
          color: #FFFFFF;
          font-family:source-sans-pro;
#childpageimage2 img {
          width: 50%;
          float: left;
          top: 0px;
          padding-top: 5px;
#content3 {
          color: #FFFFFF;
          font-family: source-sans-pro;
          font-style: normal;
          font-weight: 200;
          text-align: left;
          padding-left: 10px;
          padding-right: 10px;
#contact {
          width: 100%;
          clear: both;
          margin-left: 0;
          float: right;
#contenttitle {
          width: 100%;
          color: #FFFFFF;
          text-decoration: overline;
body {align-content:center}
#content {
          width: 100%;
          clear: both;
          margin-left: 0;
          color: #FFFFFF;
          font-family: source-sans-pro;
          font-style: normal;
          font-weight: 200;
.zeroMargin_mobile {
margin-left: 0;
.hide_mobile {
display: none;
/* Tablet Layout: 481px to 768px. Inherits styles from: Mobile Layout. */
@media only screen and (min-width: 481px) {
.gridContainer {
          width: 90.675%;
          padding-left: 1.1625%;
          padding-right: 1.1625%;
          clear: none;
          float: none;
          margin-left: auto;
a {
          color:#FFFFFF;
          text-decoration:none;
a:hover {color:#843F93;
#top {
#mainnav {
#menuSystem {
.menuItem {
width: 23.0769%;
clear: none;
margin-left: 2.5641%;
#hero {
#footer {
#wrapper {
position: static;
#childpageimage {
width: 100%;
#content2 {
width: 100%;
clear: both;
margin-left: 0;
#content3 {
#contact {
          width: 10.2564%;
          clear: both;
          margin-left: 0;
#contenttitle {
width: 100%;
#content {
width: 100%;
clear: both;
margin-left: 0;
.hide_tablet {
display: none;
.zeroMargin_tablet {
margin-left: 0;
/* Desktop Layout: 769px to a max of 1232px. Inherits styles from: Mobile Layout and Tablet Layout. */
@media only screen and (min-width: 769px) {
.gridContainer {
          width: 88.5%;
          max-width: 1232px;
          padding-left: 0.75%;
          padding-right: 0.75%;
          margin: auto;
          clear: none;
          float: left;
          margin-left: auto;
#top {
#mainnav {
#menuSystem {
.menuItem {
          width: 23.7288%;
          margin-left: 1.6949%;
          clear: none;
#hero {
#footer {
#wrapper {
          position: relative;
          height: 0%;
#childpageimage {
          width: 49.1525%;
#content2 {
          width: 57.6271%;
          font-size: large;
          margin-left: 1.6949%;
          clear: none;
#content3 {
#contact {
          width: 6.7796%;
          margin-left: 1.6949%;
          clear: none;
#contenttitle {
width: 32.2033%;
#content {
width: 40.6779%;
margin-left: 1.6949%;
clear: none;
.zeroMargin_desktop {
margin-left: 0;
.hide_desktop {
display: none;
index.html
<!doctype html>




<html class="">

<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Kate Farrow</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {background-color:#1F1F1F;} </style>
<link href="boilerplate.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="fluidgrid.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">


<script src="respond.min.js"></script>
<script>var __adobewebfontsappname__="dreamweaver"</script><script src="http://use.edgefonts.net/source-sans-pro:n2,n6,n4:default;fredericka-the-great:n4:default. js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="gridContainer clearfix"><div id="wrapper" class="fluid">
<header id="top" class="fluid"><aside id="contact" class="fluid">
    <div align="center"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/farrowkate" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font: 80% Arial,sans-serif; color:#0783B6;"><img src="http://s.c.lnkd.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/webpromo/btn_in_20x15.png" width="40" height="30" alt="View Kate Farrow's LinkedIn profile" style="vertical-align:middle" border="0"></span></a></div>
</aside>
    <h1 align="center">Kate Farrow</h1>
    <nav id="mainnav" class="fluid">
      <div align="center">
        <ul id="menuSystem" class="fluid fluidList">
          <li class="fluid menuItem zeroMargin_desktop zeroMargin_tablet"><a href="index1.html">Home</a></li>
          <li class="fluid menuItem"><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li class="fluid menuItem"><a href="work.html">Work</a></li>
          <li class="fluid menuItem"><a href="resume.html">ResumÉ</a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </nav>
</header><div id="hero" class="fluid"><img src="140210_Kate_044.jpg" alt=""/></div>
<div id="contenttitle" class="fluid">
    <h2>Who am I?</h2>
</div>
<article id="content2" class="fluid">
    <p>My name is <strong>Kate Farrow</strong>. </p>
    <p>I’m a creative spirit with a great imagination, a passion for writing, and a knack for web strategy. Check out my work to see what I’m talking about.</p>
</article>
<footer id="footer" class="fluid">
    <p> </p>
    <p>© Kate Farrow 2014. Photography © L. Farrow and J. Sandhu</p>
    <p> </p>
</footer>
</div></div>
</body>
</html>

The "align" attribute is obsolete. See centering Pages, Images and other elements with CSS
http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Centering_web_pages_and_other_elements_with_CSS-16640.html
FluidGrids are for experienced web designers who already understand the core concepts of HTML, CSS and Advanced CSS Media Queries. Don't bite off more than you can chew for a 1st project. Start with a stable, fixed-width layout. When you become proficient with that, then you can take on more challenges.
Go to File > New > Blank page > HTML. Select a layout from the 3rd panel. Hit Create.
Creating your first web site in DW - (5-part tutorial)
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_website_pt1.html
Nancy O.

How to get 100% width in fluid grid layout CC

I'm currently getting to grips with dreamweaver's fluid grid layout and cant seem to get a div to go the full 100% width across the screen. Ive created a div outside of the grid container as a non fluid div, and entered in the CSS myself in code view since Dreamweaver doesnt seem to allow you to add a class or ID to non fluid elements in design view. I have done this and all though i thought i had achieved success i noticed when looking closely in live view and when previewed in chrome that there is still a tiny gap between the div and the edge of the screen. Its very small, but its definitely there. Ive enetered width to be 100% and its definitely not simply 100% width of the grid container as its wider. I just cant account for the tiny gap which seems to be about 1 pixel wide. Any ideas whats causing this gap?

Depending on your project goals, there are plenty of other Responsive Frameworks you can use.
Foundation Zurb
http://foundation.zurb.com/templates.php
Skeleton Boilerplate
http://www.getskeleton.com/
Initializr (HTML5 Boilerplate, Responsive or Bootstrap)
http://www.initializr.com/
DMX Zone's FREE Bootstrap extension for DW
http://www.dmxzone.com/go/21759/dmxzone-bootstrap/
Project Seven's Page Packs (Commercial CSS Templates)
http://www.projectseven.com/products/templates/index.htm
Adobe Edge Reflow
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-edge-reflow/introduction-to-reflow/
PS. I don't work for Adobe. I'm just a product user like you.
Nancy O.

Is it possible to use HTML5 tags within fluid grid layouts?

Hello,
I want to build my future websites with fluid grid layouts and Dreamweaver CS6 but I don't find any help by searching the internet how I could use the HTML5 tags like "header" "nav" "footer" etc. within the fluid grid layouts automaticly. If I do anything manually it's more error-prone. Or is just the best way to stay with the "normal" div-tags???
Thank you in advance, best regards ... Björn

Those tags are equal to a normal DIV and can be used just the same, they are just not built into CS6.
Mylenium

Fluid Grid Layout - Beginner's Questions

First, let me explain once again that I can't reply to my own threads because the "Reply" function isn't working in my browsers for some reason. (Thanks for your tips on my other questions, Ben Pleysier and Nancy O.)
Anyway, I want to modify my websites so they work in mobile devices, and I now have my first Fluid Grid Layout up and running. However, there are some bugs I need to work out.
I experimented with two or three fluid grids and just realized that they're very different for some reason. I think I inserted the wrong elements or inserted them in the wrong location.
Does the HTML code below look OK? I understand that everything is supposed to be inside div.gridContainer, which begs the question why are the last two divs (div.fluid and div#div1) OUTSIDE div.gridContainer? Are these extraneous divs that I can delete?
Am I supposed to have a div#page and div data-role="header"?
It looks like all my actual content - including the footer? - should go inside div data-role="content", right? And am I going to have to apply class="fluid Paragraph" to every paragraph in my database tables?
Some of the confusion may be because some of these unfamiliar elements (e.g. "data-role") may be HTML5, which I'm also just learning about.
If anyone could post a link to a web page(s) using Dreamweaver's Fluid Grid Layout, so I can examine the source code, it would be really helpful. Thanks!
<body>
<div class="gridContainer clearfix">
<div data-role="page" id="page">
    <div data-role="header">
    <?php require_once($BaseINC."/$MyPHP/inc/D/Shared/Body/Header.php"); ?>
    </div>
    <div data-role="content">CONTENT </div>
    <br class="clearfloat">
    <header class="fluid Header">This is the content for Layout Header Tag "Header"</header>
    <p class="fluid Paragraph">This is the content for Layout P Tag "Paragraph"</p>
    <footer class="fluid Footer"><?php require_once($BaseINC."/$MyPHP/inc/D/Shared/Footer.php"); ?></footer>
</div>
</div>

<div class="fluid DivBase">This is the content for Layout Div Tag "DivBase"</div>
<div id="div1" class="fluid">Use Insert Panel for additional Fluid Grid Layout Elements. Note: All Fluid Layout tags must be contained within the "gridContainer" div tag.</div>

</body>
</html>

#1 Success with FGLayouts comes from experience. I built 9 test layouts before I got an acceptable one. A few tips. Build Mobile first because that is what everything else is based on. Then build Tablet & finally Desktop. Do not tamper with code in FluidGrid.css or Boilerplate.css files. Use a separate, external style sheet for your content styles.
#2 Depends on whether or not you want the divs to fall outside your #gridContainer. For example, let's say you want a 100% width header & footer that stretches the entire width of your page in all devices. In that scenario, you would have to move <header> and <footer> tags above and below gridContainer div. Otherwise, everything else needs to be inside the gridContainer in order to respond to the media queries.
#3 APDivs will not work right in FluidGrid Layouts -- or any RWD for that matter -- so don't even go there.
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