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I'm guessing this is the right forum for this so here goes. Does Macromedia Dreamweaver use picture frames and text frames or do you have to put everything in tables or what? I'm confused. Any help would be appreciated.

Sibs wrote:
> Yeah, that's all I have to say... search for W3C in google (canna
> remember the URL off hand) and that site will have some HTML and CSS
> tutorials to help you on your way.

[URL]http://www.w3schools.com/[/URL]

It's a bit late now, I've submitted my design. I'll have about 6 weeks to make it though so I should be alright even if I do get stuck.

I think DW gets a bit of a hard time from many people... If you just want to build a site that works and looks alright, it's possible in DreamWeaver, but when doing it in the Design view it almost certainly won't the most elegant way to make that design. Also, the code will look horrible. Horrible I tells ya.

Oh, and if you then decide you want to make your site all nice and work relatively well in lots of browsers and be W3C compliant (ie. valid 'proper' HTML) and suchlike, it'll be a bee-hatch converting it all (trust me).

If you want your code to look nice (and probably get more credit too, since it is prety easy to make a site in DW) then I'd say your best bet would be to learn HTML and CSS and do the site in that. These aren't especially hard to get to grips with, and you can still use DreanWeaver in Code view and it'll give you nice text highlighting to make the code easy to read.

Yeah, that's all I have to say... search for W3C in google (canna remember the URL off hand) and that site will have some HTML and CSS tutorials to help you on your way.

Tyla wrote:
> JFH wrote:
> I've never made a web page before, I need to now though because it's
> for my IT GCSE coursework.
>
> I sense a pattern forming here with yet another GCSE IT project! Did
> you guys actually learn anything at school? I assume there was a
> module somewhere about web coding?

Then you assume incorrectly.

> Do whatthe rest of us did, find a good book/web site and learn how to
> do it in notepad. Slapping a piece of croc together in DW is something
> my 2yr old son could do.

Really? He's clever. Sell him to the circus or something, you'll be rich.

Tyla wrote:
> Slapping a piece of croc together in DW is something my 2yr old son
> could do.

Or my manager...and then he'll charge for it...and then I'll cringe...then he'll think he's brilliant, but is in all honesty a right Nathan. See why I want to go freelance yet?

JFH wrote:
> I've never made a web page before, I need to now though because it's
> for my IT GCSE coursework.

I sense a pattern forming here with yet another GCSE IT project! Did you guys actually learn anything at school? I assume there was a module somewhere about web coding?

Do whatthe rest of us did, find a good book/web site and learn how to do it in notepad. Slapping a piece of croc together in DW is something my 2yr old son could do.

Learn xHtml and CSS.

Until then, do not speak. Pray.

I've never made a web page before, I need to now though because it's for my IT GCSE coursework.

JFH wrote:
> I'm guessing this is the right forum for this so here goes. Does
> Macromedia Dreamweaver use picture frames and text frames or do you
> have to put everything in tables or what? I'm confused. Any help
> would be appreciated.

Why do I fear you've used MS Word to make a web page before?

Ta, I think jpg will be best in this situation.