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From: Andy Lai on 6 May 2008 21:55
Is there any way to set dreamweaver up to have no restrictions on where you
place text? I would like to be able to drag and place at any given point of
the document. I'm new to web creation so this might not even be possible with
dreamweaver. I've built pages with Quarkexpress for web which does give me the
option to drag and place.

Thanks for the help.

From: Michael Fesser on 6 May 2008 22:06
..oO(Andy Lai)

>Is there any way to set dreamweaver up to have no restrictions on where you
>place text? I would like to be able to drag and place at any given point of
>the document. I'm new to web creation so this might not even be possible with
>dreamweaver.

It's not possible with HTML. The web is not a fixed medium like a piece
of paper. You can't compare web authoring with DTP.

>I've built pages with Quarkexpress for web which does give me the
>option to drag and place.

This will never work reliable. You should get a book and learn the
basics of HTML and CSS first before you start working on a website.

Micha
From: Andy Lai on 6 May 2008 23:10
why do you think this won't be reliable?
From: Walt F. Schaefer on 7 May 2008 00:13
Because apps like Quark create spaghetti code in an attempt to make a web
page be like a printed page. Once you take time to learn and actually
understand HTML & CSS and how they work together and the natural flow of a
web page all of this will be clear to you. It's like E. I. DuPont said, "You
can't make a nylon purse out of a sow's ear".

--

Walt


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> why do you think this won't be reliable?


From: Michael Fesser on 7 May 2008 06:19
..oO(Andy Lai)

>why do you think this won't be reliable?

In order to make this work reliably you'd need to know some things which
you simply can't know for sure or can't control, for example the size of
the browser's viewport and the browser's font settings (style and size).
You don't know how browsers will render your site and which preferences
the users might have.

So relying on boxes with fixed widths and heights will lead to fragile
layouts, which will break or even cause overlapping boxes in many
browsers. As said before, HTML is no paper. It's a flexible medium.

Micha
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