Dreamweaver ApDiv failness?.....

Good morning fellas, well lunch here but recovering from a rough night of pounding back beers and party hosting.

Anywho I have been looking at DW CS4 more frequently lately, I am used to using the older versions of DW that used tabled coding. Now I have noticed that DW has finally switched over to tableless coding but I have also noticed every div box I create is absolute positioned. I have looked over the net trying to find ways to turn off the absolute positioning for all the div boxes I create but I have yet to find something suitable to fix this problem other then just doing the coding myself in notepad heh.

I am just curious to know if theres a way to turn off apdiv’s in DW….

am used to using the older versions of DW that used tabled coding[...]

OMG you are using design view?!!

In this case, you should really learn HTML /CSS and use DW as a text editor (code view), like everybody else does

am used to using the older versions of DW that used tabled coding[...]

OMG you are using design view?!!

In this case, you should really learn HTML /CSS and use DW as a text editor (code view), like everybody else does

Yea I was just hoping this couple grand software would work efficiently with easy coding heh.

I am used to coding in tabled designs, bad habit I picked up in my many years of web design, guess it is only handy for email templates now eh heh.

I can code up in tableless just takes to much time and I honestly don’t feel like spending time on something I dislike doing….

i’d love to help if i could but im a dreamweaver cs3 user lol AND a newly tableless convert – you should try coz once you start there’s no going back ... oh the joys of the tabled design days hehe

Actually it does work easy with coding (ok, maybe CS4 is a monster resource eater). Besides that and being expensive, it’s a really good tool for Windows. I’ve been using DW 8 for some time now and I will only switch to CS5 when I’ll get another free license at work (yeah, I’m THAT cheap )

Just fire up the code view and start coding.

Furthermore, coding without tables is far easier and faster. You just need to learn CSS to place them right, and also learn to code semantically (google divitis )

As for tables, yes, email templates have to be coded like this…unfortunately…

P.S.: none of the designs you see here, or in other professional communities, are done in design view. So no matter how expensive a program is, design view isn’t going to help you