Hello,

It has been a while since I dove into site design. Anyway I fired up dreamweaver last night and started to create a simple 3 column layout using css. The css reneders perfectly in my browser, but not in the dreamweaver design view. Is this normal? Can anyone let me know. If necessary I can post my markup and css. Please help me as this is very annoying for someone trying to their first css layout. I am using css syntax like div#content, dv#navigation, etc.

Thanks in advance
Luke

I don't use DW but have noted it's design view can be a bit flaky. Use real browsers to preview your layouts.

Yup, while certainly better in DW8, it's still not working perfectly. I'd been using DWMX, and the preview was even worse, so I upgraded to DW8 to try and fix it (among other reasons). Still not perfect, and previewing in a browser is the best way.

Ok Thanks guys...

I know previewing in a browser is thebest bet, but it would just help me little more with my design if it rendered properly in the design view, so I could see it as I go.

Thanks again
Luke

Does anyone have any siggestions of an editor or IDE that will render properly in design view?

i have problems in DW sometimes but to be honest not often. if you design things properly it should always show fine.

i would try notepad++. it is like a super charged notepad and has a couple of nice features similar to DW such as colouring the text making the code easier to read.

it doesn't render a preview but if you have dual screens or split your windows on your screen then you can have a firefox open and set it to refresh every 10 seconds or something.

Hello,

It has been a while since I dove into site design. Anyway I fired up dreamweaver last night and started to create a simple 3 column layout using css. The css reneders perfectly in my browser, but not in the dreamweaver design view. Is this normal? Can anyone let me know. If necessary I can post my markup and css. Please help me as this is very annoying for someone trying to their first css layout. I am using css syntax like div#content, dv#navigation, etc.

Thanks in advance
Luke

I used to have similar problems when I was starting out. I think it began when I started using floats. Although the browser preview was alright, everything seemed to be whack out of place in design view. What I really like about Dreamweaver, is you can edit the CSS in a pinch. So keep on experimenting. It was only after a decent number of trials and errors when I finally got the design view to live harmoniously with the browser preview.