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

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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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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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SLS PublishingAuthor

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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

BenPleysier

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Nancy and Ben, your insulting remarks about my webite are not at all appreciated, and they are certainlly not helpful. If my websites are so deplorable then why do so many people find them and thank me for the information? I have had many people connect with me though goggle searches, and I've helped undergraduate and PhD graduate students with insect identifications for their theses, University classes for their lectures, scientific publications, non-profit photographic catalogs, an agricultural guide to help corn and bean farmers in Costa Rica identify insect pests, a plant fact sheet for a project in Germany, and field guides in the United States and Canada. These connections with people at this website don't even compare to the number of connections I'm made with people who descend from the same folks I do through my genealogy website. As I stated early, any coding issues that occur in my websites were created by the Dreamweaver programs I was using...CS3, CS51, CS5.5... since I wasn't coding... I was doing all of my creations in Design mode.

As a retired teacher of 30 years, an author of more than 200 editions of text books for McGraw Hill Publishing, and a volunteer at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida for the last 24 years, I know how to instruct students, and teach information to the general public.

Nancy and Ben, you two shouldn't be participating in public forums that has its goal as helping people. You are both arrogant bullies.

Nancy and Ben, your insulting remarks about my webite are not at all appreciated, you two shouldn't be participating in public forums that has its goal as helping people. You are both arrogant bullies.

By @SLS Publishing

I am sorry that you feel that way. As I previously stated, I am a grumpy old man.

I respect that you are a very knowledgeable person and are doing charitable work to help others. But how does this differ from my situation? In my working life I was a professional engineer. I also have a lot of knowledge. But this knowledge did not allow me to develop websites. In my retirement, I decided to help an old friend of mine to develop OH&S web apps. For this, I had to be taught the skills of web development. With my background, coding in different languages, it was probably easier for me than for most people. I was also helped along by very helpful people in this forum who quietly gave up their own time to help me in sticky situations. One of those persons is @Nancy OShea !

The old saying: "let the cobbler stick to his last" is true, even today.

Learn from @Nancy OShea and others in this forum; I'm in as well.

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