DW design view quirks

input any problems you've found in Dreamweaver

[nigassma]

I was just wondering if anyone would be willing to share what design view problems they have found when using CSS in DW. Using code view is obviously the best bet, but when you hand off a webpage to someone who feels comfortable using only the WYSIWYG view you can't hand them a mess!

Piskie (webmastworld member) uses two style sheets: one for the site itself, and a copy of that with tweeks for the WYSIWYG view.

Post the tweeks that you've run into so we can all bask in the glory that is non-code view!

[JAB Creations]

I experience no XHTML or CSS errors because I use notepad to do all the code on my site.

My fellow students at my school all use Dreamweaver and when they ask to help them out I have to spend time figuring out what the heck 'm looking at. For rollovers it makes fifty lines of code and in example to deal with IE I use some JS thats maybe about 80 chars long depending on the class name.

My adivce is, if you want your page to look the way you want, load in the smallest possible amount of time, and not pull unexpected tricks, do the code yourself. As all the evil guys in the movies say, "If you want something done, do it yourself!" :-)

[benihana]

DW really makes a mess of CSS in design view. I tend to set up site that use php includes for all template areas, e.g. header, footer and also one that includes the stylesheet references.

This way, when you hand it over, they get just the content to work with, in a plain text format. Assuming it gets marked up properly with <hx> and <p> etc, when it gets uploaded all the styles are applied properly.