Dreamweaver - Very Basic Question

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Very Basic Question

gurgsprout

2005-10-28, 10:19 pm

(my site has three main frames, the main text box, the navigation box and a
little contact box...it can be seen http://www.tokyoheights.com ). I made my
current site a loooong time ago via a step by step guide that I no longer have
and can't remember how I did it. I am attempting to make a new site, basically
same layout, just bigger so people don't have to squint as much.)

In photoshop, I slice up my main site image and "save for web" as html and
gif files. When I import it into Dreamweaver 8, I was taught that I then had
to delete the main text sliced images in order to fill it with my text page.
For some reason this works perfectly when I delete the main text box frame, but
whenever I delete the navigation frame image or the contact frame image,
Dreamweaver throws my whole site out of whack with no way of getting it back
into order. I have also tried slicing it every which way and no matter what I
seem to do, the end result is always the same.

What am I doing wrong? If I don't slice it, then how can I put a frame in
there? But when I do slice it, the site gets thrown off by Dreamweaver.

Thanks so much if you can help:confused;

gurgsprout

2005-10-31, 3:15 am

nothing??? Maybe I'm more advanced then I think....

Gary White

2005-10-31, 3:19 am

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:54:09 +0000 (UTC), "gurgsprout"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

>nothing??? Maybe I'm more advanced then I think....

Well, you're using PhotoShop/ImageReady to create your HTML. It's HTML
code that is throwing your page off. Given the horrible code normally
written by image editors, it's going to be very difficult to debug.

It's going to be impossible to debug without seeing it.

Gary

gurgsprout

2005-10-31, 6:16 pm

Someone else also mentioned it being an html issue, but unfortunately Im way to
much of a beginner to (1) know what to do about that and (2) tackle flash. You
mentioned being able to see it in order to debug, what can do so you can see
it? Do I attach the file to this or post it online or just cut and paste the
entire code?

Thanks!

Gary White

2005-10-31, 6:27 pm

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:39:18 +0000 (UTC), "gurgsprout"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

>Someone else also mentioned it being an html issue, but unfortunately Im way to
>much of a beginner to (1) know what to do about that and (2) tackle flash. You
>mentioned being able to see it in order to debug, what can do so you can see
>it? Do I attach the file to this or post it online or just cut and paste the
>entire code?

You upload it somewhere and post a link to it here.

Gary

gurgsprout

2005-10-31, 10:20 pm

This is the site with about as far as I can go before screwing the whole thing
up re the problem I wrote about above.
Click http://www.tokyoheights.com/designe...prob/index.html

If there is anything else I should post please let me know and Ill do so..
Thanks!

Gary White

2005-10-31, 10:24 pm

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:25:34 +0000 (UTC), "gurgsprout"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

>This is the site with about as far as I can go before screwing the whole thing
>up re the problem I wrote about above.
> Click http://www.tokyoheights.com/designe...prob/index.html

It's just as I feared. The proliferation of colspan and rowspan
attributes used when ImageReady split and merged table cells has made an
intricate, but extremely fragile table structure. There is no way to
make that structure stable without starting over and abandoning the use
of an automated process, like an image editor, to construct the page
infrastructure.

You can read this fairly short article to see why this is such a bad
idea: http://apptools.com/rants/spans.php

Here are a couple of good tables tutorials that may help you if you
decide to rebuild:
http://www.dwfaq.com/Tutorials/Tabl...ging_tables.asp
http://www.dwfaq.com/Tutorials/Tabl...ible_tables.asp

Gary