Any Dreamweaver Guru's Out There?

[guigsy]

hey friends.. is anyone out there familiar with designing pages in dreamweaver, using layers (as opposed to frames) and css style sheets? i need help simply getting the page (and contents) to center itself depending on the browser window... went through a couple online tutorials yesterday and still failed miserably - if anyone thinks they can help me, drop me a pm and i'll love ya forever... thanks in advance.

[bouche]

here's some templates that should help you....

http://www.mollio.org/

[bouche]

http://alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/

[CyberHippie]

I'm not a dreamweaver expert, but css-wise here's what you need to do...

Usually I include a main DIV which is like my main content wrapper. This needs to have a width, so whatever your design dictates, then you set the left and right margins to auto for the centering effect. So like this:

.layout {

width: 780px; /* or whatever your width is */

margin: 0 auto 0 auto; /* top, right, bottom, left */

}

That should do the trick... Although sometimes I have to add in "text-align: center;". Then all the other divs will need a text-align: left;.

Good luck.

[\/\/illy]

That's funny; I'm spending my day in Dreamweaver but I'm certainly not an expert. A beginner would be more accurate. I'm all excited that I finally got the whole Local Site / Remote Site thing working for a couple of sites that I maintain. Up until this point I have just been opening pages one at a time off the server itself.

[Hux]

I spend a lot of time on Dreamweaver - can I help?

[larry_llama]

i believe you can get me through the nigh - ighhhht

[stu dog]

Guigsy

..... lets see the pic's of c towns mom in the nude .. whats taking u so long.

just put them on a flickr site already ..

screw dreamweaver ..

[paisley]

yeah set your width in pixels and center it... learning css is a bit of a curve but not really that much of one... use dreamweaver to slap things onto a page then your css coding experience to fine tune things to just right

and put up the pics of c towns mom

[guigsy]

thanks all.

i found this tutorial that basically said i cant do what im hoping to do... then later implied that, hey, maybe i could? :crazy: at any rate, nothing my fingers have done yet have yielded any results, so either im missing something or just generally confused.

so, i scrapped it and decided to work on something even more minimalist, and im just gonna deal with the left-justification.

pics of c-towns mom forthcoming.