help layout for dreamweaver

[photographer1mike]

years ago i was able to drag drop and resize and just do any thing i want now with cs6 dream these options are gone is the a way to get back to that option

[photographer1mike]

this is what i have very hard to use,, want old way

[Captiv8r]

Moved here from Adobe RoboHelp forum.

[BenPleysier]

What you are talking about was called AP Divs, or in other words, absolute positioned divs. They were useful to a point back in the days when monitors were of a fixed size, namely 640 x 480. Website layouts were treated in the same manner as printed material.

Fast forward to today and fixed layouts are out of favour making way for responsive designs. This is because websites can be viewed on a number of different devices ranging from smart phones to large screen TV's.

In other words, drag and drop is no longer part of Dreamweaver.

[Nancy OShea]

DW was never a drag & drop app although some people incorrectly used it that way.  The resulting product was usually a mess. So  Adobe saw fit to remove AP Div Layers from the insert menus.

Today, DW expects you to know how to work with code.   Or use one of the pre-built Starter Templates as your layout.

File > New > Starter Templates.   Pick one and hit the Create button.   SaveAs index.html

[B i r n o u]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea  a écrit

DW was never a drag & drop app although some people incorrectly used it that way. 

Sorry Nancy, I miss what you're meaning... DW IS a Drage and Drop app...  Ok I have perhaps missed what you do mean... but as you can see on the video (sorry no sound)...

• if in live view on click on an insert item one can say precisly where we want to add the item... befire, after, in within and so on...
• if we drag the item there is a green line that shows us where we could drop the item
• in the DOM panel one can drag and drop items to move them around
• in the display view one can add links using Pick Quick features
• and there are many others...

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[Nancy OShea]

DW is not like Photoshop or Muse where you can click and move items exactly where you want them on the workspace.  

As you say, you can to a limited extent click & drag from panels but that's not what the OP is asking.

[MelissaHoffmann]

There was an Adobe program that was drag and drop and I forget the name of it. It was NOT Dreamweaver, but could be obtained in a package with some of the other Adobe programs including Dreamweaver and/or the drag and drop one.

[Nancy OShea]

You mean Adobe Muse?  Well, that's End of Life now.  I don't recommend using it. 

If you own a Mac, there are a couple of visual web design tools to try. 

• https://sparkleapp.com/
• Blocs - Fast, easy to use and powerful visual web design software that lets you create beautiful and...

And there's an online app called WebFlow that might appeal to some users.

Responsive web design tool, CMS, and hosting platform | Webflow

BTW. this is not a product endorsement.