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julies48590286
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November 14, 2017
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Design View Help

  • November 14, 2017
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Hello,

I just started using DreamWeaver CC 2015 and I am having some trouble. When I open a page from a previous version sometimes Design View is available and sometimes only Live View. How do I get Design View on all pages? For example when I want to use Check Spelling from Commands on the menu bar it says only available in the Design View, but I can't figure out how to get there.

Thanks!

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea

    I don't recommend using legacy Fluid Grid Layouts anymore.  They were removed for a few reasons: The layouts are temperamental and flaky to work with.  There are much better responsive methods now including  but not limited to Bootstrap Starter Templates.

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    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    November 14, 2017

    I don't recommend using legacy Fluid Grid Layouts anymore.  They were removed for a few reasons: The layouts are temperamental and flaky to work with.  There are much better responsive methods now including  but not limited to Bootstrap Starter Templates.

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    ALsp
    ALsp
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    November 14, 2017

    My advice to the original poster is to code the page layout himself or use an extension that will be usable for years. Bootstrap is simply today's fashionable CSS library and there is no way to predict how long and how accurately Adobe will support it. Bad, bad, BAD practice to rely on any Adobe page-layout tools or starter pages. History, in this case, keeps repeating itself. So, Julies, be very careful.

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 15, 2017

    I like Project Seven's templates and layouts, Al :-)).  But I've been using Bootstrap for years now and I really like to work with it.   As I write this, I'm looking at an older project and having no trouble picking up where I was because the front-end code is consistent even between different versions of the framework.

    If I could only get my SQL statements to work as well....

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Jon Fritz
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    Jon FritzCommunity Expert
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    November 14, 2017

    That is very likely due to the use of the now removed Legacy Fluid Grid Layouts.

    Adobe took away Design View in order to ween designers off of them before they were removed from the program entirely. You can get design view back, but it would probably be much better for your site and sanity if you replaced LFGLs with something else long term.

    Here's how to get around the issue...

    Close all other files, open the Legacy Fluid Grid's css and add the X shown below:

    /*

        Dreamweaver Fluid Grid Properties

        ----------------------------------

        dw-num-cols-mobile:     X 4;

        dw-num-cols-tablet:        8;

        dw-num-cols-desktop:    12;

        dw-gutter-percentage:    25;

    =====================================

    Then save and close the file.

    Restart DW and you should have Design View from there on out on any files using that LFGL's .css file.

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    julies48590286Author
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    November 14, 2017

    Thank you.

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