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Aligning, spacing, and adding borders to photographs in design mode in dreamweaver.

  • April 22, 2024
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I have an active website I designed with CS3 and CS5.5 Dreamweaver. The website is 13 years old and still evolviing. Now I am trying to use the latest Dreamweaver version because the old versions are incompatible with my new Macintosh. The new version has changed the alignment on some/most of my photographs.  I cannot navigate the new Dreamweaver to find out how to align, space, and add borders to photographs in design mode.  I'm not a programer and it seems that the engineers assumed that everyone using Dreamweaver is a genus engineer using code.  Well, maybe they are, but this 77 year old woman volunteer who has developed an inventory website for a nonprofit conservation group is not.  Can someone help me?

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    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    April 22, 2024

    Switch to LIVE view (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + F11).  See screenshot.

     

    Please post the URL to your problem page so we can see what you're working with.  And then tell us what you need help with.

     

    Dreamweaver is not a click & drag design tool.  Never was.  It's fundamentally a code editor.  Nothing close to genius aptitude required.  But it's assumed users have basic skills with HTML & CSS code. 

     

    CODE TUTORIALS:
    - https://www.w3schools.com/html/
    - https://www.w3schools.com/css/

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    April 22, 2024
    Thanks for your message on the Adobe Community Mailer.

    The url for the webpage I’m working with is http://www.susanleachsnyder.com/GopherTortoisePreserve/InsectOrderDiptera.html#Muscid

    The problem is that the new version of Dreamweaver doesn’t have anyway for me to add space between photos and align them. When I go to center align in properties, it aligns the entire page, text and pix. My site is 13 years in the making and parts that were already completed are now compromised. New sections I’m trying to add like the screen shot below, shows that I cannot put more than one photograph in a row without having margins all screwed up. I have mastered putting the border around the photos by going to the split screen for Code/Design mode and manually adding “border=“2” to the code. I tried to add “hspace”= (a number), for each photo I plan to put beside one another, but the spacing cannot be achieved to center both photographs with “hspace”.

    I was able to create several websites with old versions of Dreamweaver, but I find that by Dreamweaver designers removing the photograph tools for borders, alignment, and spacing, they have added unnecessary time and frustration to my being able to work. I’m not a web designer to make money. I am a volunteer with a nonprofit…. and I’m old.

    Susan


    
    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    April 24, 2024

    There are hundreds of pages in my websites. None of the websites are used for selling anything and I am the lone supporter of paying for hosting and Dreamweaver and Photoshop software for a nonprofit. .  I am just trying to document information for people. As a result I have documented 1275 different species in a gopher tortoise preserve, attracted 36 families of persons who are all related to ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War in a small town in North Carolina, and documented other things of interest to people.  When I was using previous forms of Dreamweaver, I had no problems. I used the design mode and I believe that many of the code errors were within the CS5.5 software, since I didn't fool with code.  It is only after I downloaded the latest version that I have problems with the new software changing my previous photograph spacing and alignment settings.  Even with all the errors you found, I have had no complaints from the people who rely on the information I have posted. In talking with a tech guy at Dreamweaver today, I learned that the latest version of Dreamweaver that I downloaded is not really compatible with my Macintosh OS Sonoma.  He said it could be the cause of my glitches, but he wasn't sure.  As you stated, I guess I am in trouble. I'm elderly, have visual problems, and will be letting down a lot of people who depend on my websites when I quit.  My website was working perfectly before the CS5.5 software crashed on Thursday on my old computer.  When Dreamweaver updates its software, it should consider the needs of those who have been supportive of Adobe for years and years and keep buttons we have been using.  I wonder who had the bright idea of omitting ways to border, align, and space photographs?  That is a very big deal with all of my sites.

     


     

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    When Dreamweaver updates its software...

     

    I wonder who had the bright idea of omitting ways to border, align, and space photographs? 

    By @SLS Publishing

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    1. Dreamweaver is in minimal maintenance status since 2001. No new features are planned except essential updates. 

     

    2. That 'bright idea' was the brain child of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) & browser makers who set the web standards we must adhear to today.  Adobe had no say in the matter, they just make software that we use to create websites that work in modern web browsers.

    HTML = structure & content.

    CSS = presentation styles & layout to make it all pretty.

     

    Hundreds of pages deserve a content management system (CMS) that facilitates collaboration and web searches so people can find your content. Yes? 

     

    If you work with like-minded enthusiasts who can help you, WordPress is an online publishing platform you should consider switching to.   https://wordpress.org/ 

    • WordPress is used by millions of sites worldwide. 
    • It requires no special training to start using. 
    • Most commercial web hosts support WordPress with one-click installation. 
    • You could have a new site up & running in less than 1 day! 
    • More importantly, anyone with the site's log-in ID & password could help you maintain it.  That burden would no longer rest solely with you. 

     

    There are free and paid Themes available for WordPress.  Themes give your WP site its functionality and appearance. See links below.

     

    I hope I've given you some food for thought.  Let me know if you have any questions.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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