Re: Dreamweaver tables

Hi Shelby. I pulled the page into Dreamweaver and took a look at it. It
seems to have no problem rendering the page in version 4. The one thing that
I did notice though is that you seem to have coded your tables of races and
news, etc., with H1 tags. I took a look at the stylesheet, and you set H1-H3
to have a font size of 8pt. Why not just use regular HTML and set the font
size and attributes the way you want them? Or make a separate class for
them, such as .info and set all the attributes in that one. Then specify the
class for those particulars. That way if you decide to use H1-H3 anywhere
else in the document and you want it to be its natural self, you don't have
to futz with getting it to work.

Other than that, Dreamweaver worked fine.

Jami

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cook, Shelby [mailto:scook(at)equibase.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:00 PM
> To: HWG-Basics; 'dlapcewich(at)intira.com'
> Subject: RE: Repetitive html generation (tool for this?)
>
>
> The url is http://www.ntra.com/newhome/newhome2.html
> This is a hand-coded page.  Dreamweaver will not let me create this page
as
> it has a table inside a cell of the main table.  The main story from the
DRF
> has a photo and copy for the photo that will change each day.  The text
> which wraps around the photo and copy will also change daily.
>
> Dreamweaver does not want to let me create a table within a cell and also
> does not want me to create a cell that is not rectangular in shape (this
> text follows an "L" shape). Can I get around this?
>
> A few people have mentioned changes to the layout, etc. which is not an
> option here as the marketing director LOVES this page just as it is.  I'm
> just trying to see if DreamWeaver will allow me to create these layouts.
>
> Shelby Cook
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dennis Lapcewich [mailto:dlapcewich(at)intira.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:34 PM
> > To: HWG-Basics
> > Cc: 'Cook, Shelby'
> > Subject: RE: Repetitive html generation (tool for this?)
> >
> >
> > Do you have a URL for us to view?  Better still, can you set the table
> > borders to 1?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Cook, Shelby [mailto:scook(at)equibase.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:22 AM
> > > To: HWG-Basics
> > > Subject: RE: Repetitive html generation (tool for this?)
> > >
> > >
> > > Speaking of Dreamweaver, I'm currently evaluating it for
> > > purchase and have a
> > > design I'm testing it on which Dreamweaver doesn't like.
> > > I have a large table with a nested table inside a cell.
> > > Inside the inner table I have a picture with copy below
> > > surrounded on two
> > > sides by text which should flow around the picture and copy.
> > > The picture
> > > and copy will change every day so I don't want to make a
> > > picture of the
> > > whole thing and just align it left within the text.
> > >
> > >  DreamWeaver does not seem to want to allow me to use this
> > > option.  Is there
> > > a way around this?
> > >
> > > Shelby Cook
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Tamara [mailto:Tamara(at)abbeyink.com]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:14 AM
> > > > To: Ed Peddycoart; HWG-Basics
> > > > Subject: Re: Repetitive html generation (tool for this?)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At 08:07 AM 4/19/2001 -0500, Ed Peddycoart wrote:
> > > > >I am working on my first website and I am finding that in an
> > > > effort to have
> > > > >a consistent look and feel, that I am doing a lot of
> > > > repetitive coding.
> > > > >
> > > > >I am searching for a tool that will reduce this tedium and
> > > > generate html
> > > > >files to use as starting points...something that will take
> > > > an input html
> > > > >template file and a second file that contains specific page
> > > > >information/names with the output being the starting points.
> > > > >
> > > > >For example...Lets say that my site has five pages,
> > > > MainPage, Page1, Page2,
> > > > >Page3 and Page4.  I know that I want each page to look like
> > > > MyTemplate.html.
> > > > >Is there a tool that will take MyTemplate.html and produce
> > > > MainPage.html,
> > > > >Page1.html, Page2.html, Page3.html and Page4.html?
> > > >
> > > > Ed,
> > > >
> > > > In addition to Kate's suggestion about Dreamweaver, there are
> > > > also many other programs available:
> > > >
> > > > HKit ($free for now) from http://www.chami.com
> > > > HomeSite ($80-100 USD) from Allaire/Macromedia
> > > >
> > > > and a number of other tools for various platforms and prices.
> > > >
> > > > Since you're just starting, you may want to give HKit a spin
> > > > and see how that works -- you'll really need to poke around
> > > > in the preferences and so forth to set up custom templates,
> > > > but there are also places in both HKit and HomeSite (as well
> > > > as DW and others) where you can store code snippets for later use.
> > > >
> > > > You can also take a look around at any download site and read
> > > > and review a variety of other editors.
> > > >
> > > > For Windows, HKit, HomeSite and Dreamweaver have excellent
> > > > reputations for nice, neat, relatively valid coding (there's
> > > > /always/ the possibility of operator error). It is nice to
> > > > get to know Dreamweaver since many *help wanted* ads (that's
> > > > if you can find'em these days ;-)) do require Dreamweaver.
> > > >
> > > > The level of automation will be very dependent on how well
> > > > you learn the program, so give yourself time.
> > > >
> > > > HTH a little
> > > > <tamara />
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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