layout and ap div in Dreamweaver CC

Adobe probably pissed a lot of people by taking it out, including me.
Others could stop pointing it's being wrong. It's still working. Good practice or bad practice, who cares? A example. On Apple devices <embed> doesn't scroll content, while <iframe> scrolls (example - Baltic-stream ). Had to redo the code on a lot of pages just to make it work for Apple devices. Should we now dump the <embed> tag? According to some of the logic laid out here, we should. Apple doesn't allow Flash animations? Should we now dump Animate ? Of course.

Since the "market" exists and it works, you could have left it, Adobe.

There are workarounds on playing with the code in DW CC by adding an element manually
position: absolute;

I'm studying graphic design, and I have an assignment on Dreamweaver CC, and one part of the assignment that counts largely is being able to do the AP DIVS.... how must I now do the AP divs if it doesn't exist anymore............

This is annoying. My professor is using CS5 or 6 and I'm using CC. How can I get the same result? I already got " you need to get the version we're using" when I asked for help

I have a base structure do use APDIVs and they all follow every monitor size. I have made more than 8 websites with them.

Thanks for the information about whether or not AP divs are in CC.

That being said, I am disappointed in a way.  Right now, I am taking a class at ABC Adult School using CS6 and I have just learned how to draw and work with AP divs.  I had hoped to use it in a personal project here at home, but could not find any way to make the divs.

Now that I know that it's not there, I feel sort of cheated because that's knowledge I can't use.  And I certainly don't know how to create a similar effect in CC without AP divs.  I would appreciate any help; until then, I'll just carry on.

I hate to re-open this debate as it seems to be polarising the percieved differences between coders and designers but I am in search of a long term or at least future proof solution...

Like a lot of graphic designers I work in print design as well as for screen. In my 25+ years in this business I have only be able to work 'visually' i.e. with things that I can see in front of me. I use AP Divs because I can actually design a layout according to the principles of graphic design (typography, hierarchy, colour, composition and imagery) I am however aware that there is a problem with them.

I have tried several times to learn and use 'normal' divs but frankly the process reminds me of trying to program my ZX Spectrum in hex code in the 1980's...

Does anyone think there may be a way in which we designers might be able to keep using dreamweaver without all this coding? Could Adobe make a DIV which keeps everyone happy?

(Oh and please don't suggest Muse, it's like using MySpace...)

thanks for all

first think guys im not a web developer iam a graphic designer
i do my design in illustrator or some times photoshop and flash and then go to dreamweaver

to make my points to the programers in my company and make them understand my design i draw the website in dreamweaver with the APDivs

so i don't care if it's the not best selution or not effective or not powerful or old or any word you said

i just don't care

and i don't want to use the old dreamweaver it's disgusting that i update all my adobe programs and get used to the new designs and stick with dreamweaver cs6 it's just a stupid

and why they remove it anyway. they didn't remove the (red eye removal tool) from the photoshop .it never work's but you can't judge who and how they use it ??

and i know there is so many graphic designer work in the web design like me and do the samethings that i do

because it's the best tool for us

thanks for all

I think the removal of DRAW AP DIV is going to be met with mixed emotions - probably more on the angry and upset side. Dreamweaver, for years, has appealed to the visual designer as well as the more code-oriented one. People use it at different levels and the nice thing about the DRAW aspect was that it allowed a person to quickly "layout" a site or page and then make adjustments to it to comply properly with code/best practices. With the layout feature gone, the product feels less about creativity and design and more about the professional. I can see both sides of the arguement, though.

This is a classic example of a product being developed with one customer group considered and not the whole.

I know several hundred students that got their first exposure to website design/layout by using the DRAW AP Div tool, plus from an accessability standpoint, now we have a challenge.

I think it should just be an option that can be hidden. It is really weird to see it go and sad that all user groups are not being considered. Yes, we need to move ahead but you need to inform and educate the customer as to why - not just rip it out.

I think the lack this feature alone will keep many in DW CS6 as the creative aspect and the intuative approach is gone.

My .02.

Please refer this link for more details.

AP Divs will throw all content over the page as browser sizes shift.

They may look good in dreamweaver or your own browser, but other browsers with different window sizes will "reposition" those divs and possibly make everything unaligned.

You should NOT under any circumstances, be designing a website with APDivs.

That said, those panels are gone in CC, because they were used for design techniques long abandoned by professional web designers.