Dreamweaver Aaargh!!

[Grrilla]

I've been "getting into" Dreamweaver but I'm finding it to be one stubborn SOB of an app. I'm about to the point where I want to toss DW, all together, and go back to just using Taco Edit and my FTP client- I end up using them half the time, anyways, and they are a heck of alot freindler and easier to get along with.

But, I'm in assembly line mode and putting up a load of pages and sites and still think that DW would be helpful in streamlining the process, if I could figure out what I am doing that's causing it to act in a couple of annoying ways that has me about ready to pull my hair out.

So, any DW affecionados out there that could give me some advise on this?

The short version:
I want to stop DW from reverting to a local folder ("place holder" I guess you'd call it), after I've saved the htm locally and am putting it up on the remote server. Somewhere in there,it is changing the code- usually its an image file that gets linked locally instead of to the /images/pic.jpg at the remote. If this sounds familiar and there is an easy answer to the mistake I am making, don't read on.

The extended version:
1) I finish my page, I save the htm locally to: sites-local > examplesite folder. 2) I test it w/ Browsers and all is AOK 3) I save it to remote server, (all set-up thru c-panel account for the domain).
Everything is good to that point, but when I test the site, damn DW has changed the code thaat I thought I had saved. Most often, when I go back and look, it has changed the image file from the remote back to a local folder, even after I've typed in the code for the remote folder, FCS! Anyone know what part of the procedure I'm missing and that DW wants me to obey?

Another problem has to do w/ styles. After I set page properties, when I edit txt in design view it seems to revert back to default font even after I've set the the page font to a non-default font- like there is some big master preference default font. Basically, the problem is that it automatically sets styles as I make text changes and I don't want it to set styles. I'll lay some text down, backspace to another row and bingo my style changes. When the style changes it will revert to paragraph format so and than when I go back up to the code to put in <br>'s for the spacing I want, the styld reverts again.

Am I nuts? Anyways, I know there's a few procedures that I am missing or doing out of order for this to happen. If any one of these little probs I am having sounds familiar to you and you could give me a tip on where I'm screwing up- particularly stopping it from reverting to a local folder ("place holders" I guess you'd callit), I'd appreciate it. I just put another index.htm page an my images are missing again.

 

[LeetPCUser]

DW has a tendancy to do that. If you know that much and know what it is doing wrong why don't you hand code it?

 

[gazzip]

and the moral of the story is ... dreamweaver sucks...

i gave up with dreamweaver along time ago, its always used to do anoying things like insert static urls and was never any good for a tableless layout. I wonder if i was to be taught how to use it then i might fair a little better but imo no piece of software should require tutition in order that you might use it.

The best way to learn it IMO is to find a nice looking website - Go ..File ..Save as.... and save to your hardrive.

Open Dreamweaver - open the saved webpage up in Dreamweaver and the take a look how it all comes together - Reverse Engineering That's how I taught myself anyway.

I personally can't be bothered with Tutorials for the most part.

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[Amnezia]

The best way to learn it IMO is to find a nice looking website - Go ..File ..Save as.... and save to your hardrive.

Open Dreamweaver - open the saved webpage up in Dreamweaver and the take a look how it all comes together - Reverse Engineering That's how I taught myself anyway.

I personally can't be bothered with Tutorials for the most part.

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i have no intention of learning how to use it anymore, it was ok when i started out but now i look back at it, it just seems badly designed..

I can write perfectly good stuff using vi and firefox i dont see the point in WSIWIG editors.

 

[LeetPCUser]

Yeah WYSIWYG editors are good for starting out but then branching out to coding is the best way :imho:.

 

[gazzip]

i have no intention of learning how to use it anymore, it was ok when i started out but now i look back at it, it just seems badly designed..

I can write perfectly good stuff using vi and firefox i dont see the point in WSIWIG editors.

Hi - I did'nt notice your signature before posting - It looks like you already know far more than I ever will ! - Sorry

 

[lextalionis]

Dreamweaver tries to overwrite with a local call. The best way to stop this is use "save as" and point to the file, instead of "save" which attempts to save as a template or generic file.

For example, if you are working on the index.htm file, click "save as" then either click on the existing index.htm file or type in index.htm.

This will stop the local overwrite of your directory calls for img files, etc. and leave your code the way you create it.

 

[Grrilla]

i dont see the point in WSIWIG editors.

This is, probably, the reason why>

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I like reverse engineering. I'm using it w/ php ATM. Do any of you use Mac? I can't remember if the windows version of IE and Firefox have this feature, (how soon we forget.) but, on Mac you can bring up source code on any page you are on off of a pulldown.- it's built in. 2 clicks and I can see all of -RJ-"s code on this page- colorcoded and structured. The toolbar also has a Page Info menu that gives site info, media, and all of the links to the page you are on a DOM inspector that gives gives you design and code view of the page and reacts to what you click on in either view. There's also a JavaScript console tha shows errors. I switched to Mac close to the time when Firefox was coming out so I'm not sure if this, exclusively a Mac/Mac Firefox deal or if Windows Ffx and IE also have thesecapabilities.

I also have a little Mac platform app- "Web Devil"- (the name gives you a good idea as to what it does and there are bunch of these apps around for both Mac and Win but, this is a particularly good one)- it will physically download the entire contents of a website onto your hd- You can also give it parameters to only download certain types of files ie jpg / html etc. It also pulls down all of the sites links to any level you want and even follows "foreign links" ie the site links to other websites. Also works w/ ftp links. I don't use it that often, but it is a dandy little reverse engineering tool that can let you se what's going on underneath at your leisure. Like most anything else, I imagine that there are ways that it could be misused.