CSS and the Design View in Many Web Editors
Article ID: KB101837
Template layouts based on CSS rather than tables are becoming very popular because of
recent changes in html and xhtml standards. The reasons for these changes are chronicled
elsewhere, but for a basic primer, please review
this site.
The problem is that most older web editing software like Frontpage 2003 and older, Adobe
Dreamweaver CS2 and older, Miscrosoft Visual Studio, etc, were not designed to work well
with CSS based templates in the Design View. Unfortunately at this time there is not easy fix.
Best known fixes:
First, we highly recommend that you upgrade to a web editor that was designed to work with CSS templates.
At this time your best options are
Microsoft Expression Web,
which we have found works very well with CSS sites,
Microsoft Sharepoint Designer,
although Sharepoint Designer is really best used if you intend to work with Windows Sharepoint Server, MOSS, etc,
and
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3,
which like Expression Web, works well with CSS layouts.
Your second option is to not attempt to work with your site in Design View, rather work with your
site in the html or code view and preview all of your changes by first saving your file and then
previewing your updates in a web browser like Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0 or Firefox.
We understand that neither of these options may be the best for you, but if you are working on
a new site, we highly recommend working with the latest technologies as cross browser supported
sites will become more important, and tables are just not able to perform that task well enough.
CSS gives you much more control over your site and how it will appear to all users, if you build
your site to current standards. It will help you greatly if you work with a web editor that was
designed to keep these standards in mind.
Was this helpful?
Please rate this article:
Email address: (not required)
(Please provide your email address if you would like PixelMill support to follow-up with you about your comment. You're email address is NOT REQUIRED to submit a comment.)
Comments: (How can we improve this article?)
Clicking "Submit" will not clear this page.
link to this page:
http://www.pixelmill.com/support/al0/kb101837.htm
permalink to this article:
http://www.pixelmill.com/support/kb101837.htm
Back to top