Website layout question

Hello Dreamweavers.
Id like to know how these type of websites are layed out in DW, for example do these websites have div tags?
or is the whole design imported into DW? is it image by image placed into DW for example?example sliced in PS and the Imported.
Im trying to understand how they are developed in DW. The second example which has text at the bottom, is that done in DW?
this question is more of educational purposes.
Thank you.

These look like "proof of design concepts" that were intended for a Flash site. Most likely it never got off the ground either because Flash is a dead web technology.
If you want to learn how to create good designs for the web, start studying basic web design theory, HTML and CSS. Later on, learn all you can about advanced CSS, HTML5 & client-side scripts for creating animations and interactive web pages (See Edge Animate).
Tutorial sites:
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/
http://www.html.net/
http://w3schools.com/
http://www.csstutorial.net/
Nancy O.

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Beginner Menu Layout Question

Hello,
I apologize since I know this question has to be answered somewhere but I'm not sure how to search it...
What is the proper way to build a menu for a website? I have built my homepage with the header, footer, and side menu that I like. Now I want to build pages that the menu link while keeping the header, and menus. What is the right approach? My code is written in html and css. I use to develop websites in pure html and used frames but I know they are not recommended. Also, I don't want to have to copy my code into each link.
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Using the template function within Dreamweaver is a good way to go if it's a small site . .
For larger sites then serverside includes would be more practical and easier for maintenance purposes.
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You create a master template page, you declare which areas will be the same for every page, (non-editable regions) and then declare an area that will
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Once you create the template and save it, you are then able to create 'child' pages from this template - as many as you like :-) If you every need to make a change to the menu or the footer or the header, change it in the master template, save it and the changes will flow through to the child pages created from the template.
Using DW Templates:
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Adrian.

Nah, it's just me. My mentor wants paper output for the markup, the committee will take a PDF or paper and the university has (thankfully) instituted an electronic submission criteria. The final product has to be a PDF to the school and I'll have some output to paper and bound for my mentor, my family (as a gift) and myself.
The two students before me did everything in Word and yeah you can make Word do it but I just don't hassle with it. I make religious use of styles in Word (and only 4 styles at that... talked to a graphic designer who does books for a living "Keep the styles to minimum!!"... Done), so getting it into InDesign is cake. Also, my mentor has a nasty of habit of constantly changing his mind and doing things like, "Can you move that picture about a centimeter to left, I just want a little space in there". I have been through this with Word, it will do it but the voices in your head will start suggesting that you kill again (and nobody wants that). I plan on doing my grants this way, manuscripts this way, everything. Everybody (NIH, journals, other funding sources) requires a PDF now and some require rather optimized PDFs (people think I'm crazy but I swear there is a difference between the PDFs that InDesign outputs and the ones that my wife's Mac does--just using the built-in PDF renderer or some of the other PDF creators for Windows), so I just went ahead and went through a tutorial on VTC.com and then read a couple of books. I wouldn't be able to layout a magazine but I can do grants, manuscripts, dissertations.

Photoshop images with spot channels in Indesign CS6 (layout question)

I've got an Indesign CS6 layout that will have a spot varnish when it goes to press. Right now I've got a layout with psd files that have spot channels in them that will be used for the spot varnish.
My question is, in Indesign when I'm laying this out should I have one layer with all the psd artwork (with no spot channels) and then a layer on top of that with the psd files with the psd layers turned off with the spot channel showing? I want to make this easy to print in the office so by doing it this way I could just turn the spot layer off and print.
Will this work for the printer?
layer 1 psd files with no spot channels
layer 2 psd files with photoshop layers turned off with the spot channel showing

Besides the obvious extra work of tracking 2 images, there would be potential problems if the images needs to be scaled and moved, and you would have to assume people downstream would know what's going on—should the layer be on or off?
I would double check with the current printer—they should know the only way to view a spot is via Sep or Output preview by turning CMYK off—magenta could just as easily be process as spot.
Take a closer look at the Alias method. Here it is with your magenta defined SPOT VARNISH.
With SPOT VARNISH set as No Alias in Ink Manager and with Overprint turned on:
And with an additional spot color defined as white named CLEAR VARNISH. When you need to print in house alias SPOT VARNISH to CLEAR VARNISH and check Simulate Overprint in the Print dialog. You can get to Ink Manger via the Print>Output dialog or Swatches panel:
All you have to do is delete the CLEAR VARNISH before sending the job to the printer or exporting

CSS layout question regarding browser sizing

Hi,
Basically I want the basis of my site to be - A header, Main content with a background image, A Footer.
I'm having problems however, I can't seem to get my footer to position where I want it i.e. at the bottom of the browser window at all times. I'm doing it as an AP div and how it should work is that it's fixed at the bottom of the page and then if the user resizes their browser in the y direction the footer moves up with it, over the top of the main content (but not the header which will have a higher z-index).
The way I THOUGHT to do it was to firstly create a div tag for the whole page (780 pixels wide, auto left and right margins, auto height) and then inside that put my ap div header fixed height at the top and have another ap div as the footer, fixed height and tell it to position 0 pixels from the bottom. However this doesn't seem to do the trick, I'm sure I'm missing something really really simple. Anyone who's vaguely familiar with the program will be able to answer this I'm sure. If my question isn't clear please let me know and I'll rephrase,
Ta

There is no reason to use APDivs for such a simple layout. Default CSS positioning (which is no positioning at all) is typically all you need for most layouts. Build your HTML markup logically from top to bottom of page and your footer will naturally appear at page bottom.
Live Demo (view page source to see the code)
http://alt-web.com/TEMPLATES/Basic-1-col-fixed.html
Or, for a Sticky Footer using Fixed positioning:
http://alt-web.com/DEMOS/CSS2-Sticky-Footer.shtml
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb
http://alt-web.blogspot.com

Xml workflow/layout question - urgent

Hi,
I'm new to the XML scene and have made progress but have the following question.
I have a .xls file that I open in Oxygen (xml editor) and save out a .xml file.
I then import the .xml file into InDesign CS5.
I have tagged the text placeholders and the image placeholders with the appropriate tags (not shown in this screen grab).
I'd like to automatically flow the text data (A-E, J-O) into a text box (on the right side of image), then flow the images (E-I) into the picture boxes on the left side of the page. There is a large amount of data (InDesign pages) so it is important that I configure this so that all of the content flows automatically thoughout the InDesign file.
Do the images need to be treated as anchored objects in a text box or is it possible to flow them into picture boxes?
I can manually drag the "product_image" files to the picture boxes but I have yet to figure out how to automatically flow these images into the layout, aside from within the same text box as the rest of the text. Instead of using the anchored object approach, it seems it would be more efficient to flow into picture boxes if possible.
Also, any feedback on how to get this data to flow automically thoughout the InDesign file would be really helpful.
Thanks so much.
Josh

Hi,
It is possibly to flow the images into picture boxes without treating them as anchored objects.Appropriately tagging the placeholders for graphics and text and then importing the XML file would allow the data (both text and images) to flow automatically into the respective tagged frames.
Regards
-Pooja

Help with website layout

Hi, I need help with Dreamweaver CS4. I don't know HTML which
is why I am using this program. I am using the AP Div (Not the
Insert Div Tag) Icon at the top in the Standard Layout tab accessed
by the icon at the top of the panel in the classic layout mode.
Here is my problem. I am trying to make sure the text and
spacing is the same as much as possible from browser to browser.
The spacing between the lines (leading) is different. Sometimes the
text jumps out of the box or text lines get cut off and looks
jumbled. My pages are layed out with a bunch of AP divs so I can
place them wherever I want. For example I draw one AP div (which
has the square box in at the left top) and then another one below.
Even though they are not touching, the browser displays them
overlapping with the text clashing. Or sometimes text just runs
wild. I've tried to use tables but they are too limiting and I am
not being able to place them freely. Is that because browsers do
not recognize CSS? How do I get at least a decent consistency
between browsers? What am I doing wrong?

As well as the links below - another way to learn (including
anyone else's bad habits) is to find a page you like, and then tell
your web browser to show you the code view for the page and/or do a
"Save As" and save the page to your computer to then copy &
paste code segments into your file (in IE click View at the top,
select Source from the options)
HTML and/or DW Tutorials, and other information links that I
have saved
http://validator.w3.org/
http://www.visibone.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.hotscripts.com/
http://www.projectseven.com/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
http://www.scriptarchive.com/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
http://alistapart.com/topics/code
http://www.how-to-build-websites.com/
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/
Download User Guide as PDF for easy search
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html
http://lynda.com/ Hours of videos.
(must pay)
http://apptools.com/examples/pagelayout101.php
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/css.shtml
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/index.htm
If not PDF (link above) an online guide to read
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0/
Customizing the layouts that come with CS3 (VIDEO)
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0155
FormMail
http://www.bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/index.php
For those using MySQL - Installing PHP and MySQL on Windows
XP
http://www.webassist.com/professional/products/solutionrecipes.asp
Community MX lessons
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=3D074
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=Dreamweaver&go=Go

Custom report layout question...can't find any answers anywhere

I am trying to build a report in Portal, using the custom report layout. The report displays like so, before I do any customization:
COLUMN1 COLUMN2 COLUMN3
COLUMN1 COLUMN2 COLUMN3
COLUMN1 COLUMN2 COLUMN3
COLUMN1 COLUMN2 COLUMN3
where COLUMN1 is the same value, always per report; COLUMN2 and COLUMN3 vary.
What I want is:
COLUMN1
COLUMN2 COLUMN3
COLUMN2 COLUMN3
COLUMN2 COLUMN3
COLUMN2 COLUMN3
In the report layout editor, Body section, this is what I see:
<TD ALIGN="LEFT"><#COLUMN1.FIELD#></TD>
<TD ALIGN="LEFT"><#COLUMN2.FIELD#></TD>
<TD ALIGN="LEFT"><#COLUMN3.FIELD#></TD>
so #COLUMN1.FIELD# must be some kind of array, but I am not finding any documentation anywhere on how to reference the individual values. All I need is the very first value of the COLUMN1 variable. Once I have that value, I can put it where I need it, but I can't get at that value, just the array.
I have searched portal center, the app server documentation, html documentation. I have googled everything I could think of, but came up with nothing. I found a similar question on this forum, but no one responded with an answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Helen,
The best way for your case is to use a content folder and customize it whichever way you like.
however, your question is about reports. the problem in reports is this that you have to use just one single query and the layout of the results of this query are displayed in a peculiar way.
anyway. something similar but not exactly the same as what you wanted do is the following.
use a query like the following: (with a union in between)
SELECT COLUMN1,NULL , NULL ,NULL ,NULL
FROM my_source_table
WHERE myCriteria LIKE 'SoAndSo%'
UNION
SELECT NULL,COLUMN2 , COLUMN3, COLUMN4, COLUMN5
FROM my_source_table
WHERE myCriteria LIKE 'SoAndSo%'
---------- Now, have the following codes in the layout segments:

<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="20%" align="center">

<tr align="center">
<td><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" width="30%" align="center">
<tr align="center">
<TH><#COLUMN1.FIELD#></TH>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<TD class="report_cell" ALIGN="LEFT"><#COLUMN2.FIELD#></TD>
<TD class="report_cell" ALIGN="LEFT"><#COLUMN3.FIELD#></TD>
<TD class="report_cell" ALIGN="LEFT"><#COLUMN4.FIELD#></TD>
<TD class="report_cell" ALIGN="LEFT"><#COLUMN5.FIELD#></TD>
</tr>

<TR><TD></TD></TR>
this should produce a report with a table structure (you may see the whole if you give BORDER="1" in the main table tag). Within this table, the first column of the first row should be showing top-leftmost column value once (COLUMN1 value) and then the next rows would show last four column values as a table block on the right-bottom part.
with kind regards,
naqvi

CSS website layout problems

Hi guys,
I am new to CSS, I have considerable knowledge HTML and several programing languages, very much outdated. I have a informational website that is several years old.
www.woodgas.net
I used frontpage to do my website and to do the updates over the years. It is time for a face lift.
I have dreamweaver CS5 installed and am having one heck of a time getting my page to do what I want. I am trying to style it similar to a frame set of a top banner and 3 columns. And a flydown menu at the top of the center column. The right and left columns need to be 160X600 and the center column to be centered between the right and left.
I want the banner to center on the page top. And the right and left columns to move as far as possible to the screen edge away from my center column. This will keep my ads as far away from my content as possible. My website has been completely supported out of my pocket and I am hoping to generate a little income to keep the site updated.
I don't want to use frames, as this would keep new ads from loading as a person navigates to a new page on my site.
Any help would be appreciated I am sure that if you check out my current site, you will find two things it is about a pretty cool subject and it could use a face lift!
Thanks
Jonathan

Gary is right. APDivs as a primary layout method seldom works well. Here is why:
http://apptools.com/examples/pagelayout101.php
Learn CSS positioning in 10 Steps
http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/
While you learn the finer points of CSS positioning, it's very helpful to start a project with a pre-built CSS layout. You can learn a lot from looking at the code.
PVII CSS Templates or Page Pack - Rock solid. Thoroughly tested to perform well in all browsers.
http://www.projectseven.com/products/index.htm
Dreamweaver CSS Templates for beginners
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dreamweaver_custom_templates.html
New DW Starter Pages --
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/introducing_new_css_layouts.html
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

Beginners CSS layout question - expanding a layer and not overlapping another

Having got well and truly fed up of using tables to layout
pages I am trying to gem up on CSS layer based layout. All well and
good but despite the various tutorials I can't find an answer to
this question...
Q. I have a layout with layers to make a three column layout,
however, I want to have a footer section at the bottom of the page
that runs the same width as the three columns (you can see my WIP
example here
http://www.spiralfilm.com/clients/broadoak/index_css.html
). Problem is, as the centre section expands with more content, how
do I make that section expand and not overrun the current footer
section? I want it to expand like a table does and push the footer
down.
I'm sure it is simple but I just can't get my head around it!
Thanks in advance for any pointers...

> However, is the use of div tags the way to seperate
blocks of content? The
> DW8
> help file seems a little unclear on this?
Yes, it would be one way to do that. A div tag is simply a
container for
other HTML elements, like a table. The problem you are having
comes with
using DW 'layers' to contain text. As Thierry suggested, this
is because
absolutely positioned elements (i.e., DW 'layers') are
removed from the
normal flow, preventing them from interacting with adjacent
page elements -
this means that when the text inside them expands, it will
begin to overlap
other content. See my demonstration of this here -
http://www.great-web-sights.com/g_layers-overlap.asp
Try these tutorials -
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/css.html
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/tableless_layout_dw8.html
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_concepts.html
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> Hi, thanks for those links. Sorry to confess they are
all a little beyond
> my
> knowledge. I will read on and see if I can understand
them.
>
> However, is the use of div tags the way to seperate
blocks of content? The
> DW8
> help file seems a little unclear on this?
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