Since the last entry on this blog I have been working almost constantly on Dreamweaver. This premiere Web design software program is not that complicated, but just like GoLive back in its first days with me, it wasn’t made to fit my brainwaves.
Now I thought I had it all figured out as far as creating and updating files and posting them is concerned. My basic pages are now in Dreamweaver as evidence. Go to www.hodi.com for an example. I even knew how to load images, how to follow CSS (cascading fall sheets) and how to use tables as a design grid.
This morning, however, the image routine escapes me. I know how to load an image. You go to the image on your computer and use the “image” icon to drag it in. Voila! It also appears on the list of “assets,” proving to me that it’s at the ready. Nope. There are two or three other ways to load images. They seemed to have worked before, but not now.
Even with my trials, the best source of assistance is Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual, by David Sawyer McFarland. I bought mine from Amazon.com with overnight shipping for less than $50. In that paperback took are 1,000 pages of well-written and well-organized material. It is not the book’s fault that the “truth” about Dreamweaver has not fully penetrated my skull. However, I don’t give up readily. Me and DW will be friends some day.
