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Jan. 4th, 2008 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestI know exactly how I want my website to look. Plus, it's pretty damn simple.
So why can I not begin to fathom how to do the bloody thing?
*weeps*
So why can I not begin to fathom how to do the bloody thing?
*weeps*
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Date: 2008-01-05 06:05 pm (UTC)But I don't think it's up to dealing with the number of pages I now have. (It never occurred to me that I'd have that many pages!) It is mind-bogglingly slow to open, and for about the first quarter hour of operation, even switching from one window to another takes a good 30". It's driving me mad.
However, when my head was utterly befuzzled by Dreamweaver, I had a go at changing the presentation of the site as is, using Freeway. Well, hah. Incredibly, my changes to master pages and styles *don't work*. So it's CSS-manqué, or something.
Which is why I thought I ought to have a go at it in a 'proper' way. Which I *WILL* do. One day...
OTOH, your advice interests me. When my Resident Expert has finished with Warcraft, I may prod him into helping me try that.
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Date: 2008-01-05 06:23 pm (UTC)Then you just have to copy paste the info and that's it! (that or save the file with different names)
Also you can add CSS style sheets to the HTML or to the layout you just created!
Dreamweaver is a very friendly program to all those who are not that good with codes, because it allows you to work with design (which is easier).
when I started programming web pages I knew zilch about codes, but I learned as I created mine, since you can see both design and codes while you work on the page.
you'll find out that HTML is a piece of cake and that you can do lots of things.
CSS I'm afraid is a bit complex, but it's not that hard to grasp how things work once you know HTML.
I don't think you'll need a CSS for a web site that mainly contains text (not necessarily), but if you want to do that, you can also set that with dream weaver.
You can create a style sheet from scratch (because after all you just need the basics of it, like "font size" "color" etc) or you can set the properties inside the dreamweaver. It's very easy.
the problem with all those programs is that they force the CSS in the web page but if the user wants to change anything, they can't, because they didn't know there was a CSS to begin with included in the code.
As randombling pointed out, your page has CSS.
Did you enable that or did the program set those properties as default?
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Date: 2008-01-05 09:59 pm (UTC)In terms of form, I know what I want it to look like - really not unlike the existing website, but plainer and with better header pics.
The program the website is currently in allows me to pick layout colours, create different boxes for text and images and position them on the page, and create type styles. It obviously does that by making a visually simple user interface and doing the CSS behind the scenes.
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Date: 2008-01-05 10:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-05 06:41 pm (UTC)To change the master and have the slaves change accordingly, you'll need to create an external CSS "style sheet" and have a link to it on each page. Then, when you change the style sheet, all your pages will change too.
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Date: 2008-01-05 10:02 pm (UTC)It'd be nice to cannibalise the existing pages and change them, but I have no confidence at all in my ability to do that flawlessly. I think I'll have to re-do the thing in Dreamweaver.
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Date: 2008-01-05 10:50 pm (UTC)It sounds like your master page isn't a proper master - instead, every time you add a new page, the CSS from the master gets added to it. That means you can't edit the CSS on your pages by editing the master. All that will do is add different code to any new pages you make.
Which sounds like a weird way of doing it to me, but hey.
I can email you a copy of your existing styles as a .css file if you want? Plus a copy of the code you need to use to get each page to use it?