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I have sliced my backgrounds in illustrator and then tried them in imageready but I cannot do anything with either of the 'saved for web' *.html files in Dreamweaver.
In Dreamweaver I open the *.html file and:
1. The sliced images disappear when I try to type text overtop
2. It is pointless to build a table over top (defeats the purpose I think).
How do I edit a sliced *.HTML file in Dreamweaver?
What is the special magical secret way?
~Shane
I don't think there is a special way for doing it. In my experience, i have been able to open the sliced document from dreamweaver and make any changes i like. The main problem that i find, is imageready inserts a whole bunch of spacer gifs into the optimised file, which makes it really hard to take any tables away or add new copy.
You might find it easier to take the sliced images and place them into a page yourself.
Otherwise, I thought there was a setting to allow editing without having to put in the background the .gif's slicing creates in each cell.
Also, I figured out from experimenting last night, making the slices line up perfectly lessons the impact of spacer.gif's.
~Shane
You can controll the whole site from an outside document. If you need to make any changes you can, without going to every page and editing it yourself.
You can also specify background images for each <div>.
Webmonkey has got a great tutorial on CSS. It goes into lots of detail.
As far as I know, it is a much cleaner way of producing a site.
WebMonkey is a great resource. I am using it to learn PHP and mySQL right now.
I'll check out the CSS one when I am done.
~Shane
I turned the individual slices into the backgrounds of each cell it created.
Pretty simple really. But that CSS sounds interesting too.
~Shane
