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- CygnusZero4
How the hell do you make a layer in this program now? Love how they change things that used to be easy.
Used to be able to just go to insert/layer, then movie it around. Not there anymore, cant find anything about layers in the help.
- SPECTACULAR0
try shift+ctrl+n. it works in photoshop
- ESKEMA0
<div id="mynewlayer></div>
- Tried to put a SWF in it. It wont work. Love when software gets worse over time.CygnusZero4
- CygnusZero40
I used to be able to just insert a layer, put a SWF in it and move it around. Why did they get rid of this?
- pillhead0
Well, things have moved on a bit now.
- acescence0
insert pane > layout > draw AP div. took me all of 10 seconds to find that.
- prophet0
isn't there an insert panel? ie: insert div then click in it, insert media.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/co…
- ESKEMA0
I didn't open DW in a long time. opened it and everything was annoyingly the same.
Insert Panel > Layout > Draw AP div
WTF are you crying about?
- airey0
I WASNT THE NEW VERSION WITH NEW FUNCTIONALITY AND OPTIONS YET I ALSO WANT IT TO BE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE OLD ONE. SOMEHOW. FUCKING NO IDEA HOW THIS COULD HAPPEN, HOW 2 OPPOSITE THINGS COULD CO-EXIST BUT I'M A WHINGING CUNT NANCYBOY WITH ZERO ABILITY TO SEARCH A HELP MENU!
you fucking douchebag.
- sherm0
<div id="mynewlayer" style="z-index:100">stuff</div>
- stewdio0
This could be a good opportunity for you. Take this frustration you're having with Dreamweaver, harness it, and use it to delete that horrid application. Then empty your trash so it can never come back. Finally you'll be able to design with actual HTML and CSS without the muddy filter. How do you make a new layer?
CSS:
.abs { position: absolute; }HTML:
<div class="abs">My new layer</div>And you can use it again, and again, and again.
- airey0
it aint the tool that's broke. rather, it is a tool that's broke just not the software based one.
- sneakybadger0
Delete > Empty Trash > Purchase http://www.panic.com/coda/
- 99 bucks instead of 399, does it 100 x better and faster without all the trash!sneakybadger
- stewdio0
@acescence
But it's *not* good as a text editor. Once you test drive something like TextMate you'll wonder why you stuck with Dreamweaver so long. (Also, if you're actually paying for software you'd be pleased to know TextMate is much cheaper than Dreamweaver.) For me it's all TextMate, Transmit, and Terminal. The three T's of web.
- ESKEMA0
airey, I know what you mean. I'm not good at coding either, but I got A LOT better since ditching DW. I now use Espresso. Also tried Coda which is also nice, but I feel more confortable with Espresso. I don't think I'm ready yet for Textmate.
Once you start coding from scratch, you get a better picture of the semantics and structure and it get's easier for implementing other code (say some jquery lightbox or wathever).
Rellying on DW to code, results in things like this thread, where you can't insert a div because you can't find it's button... or loosing hours implementing something you found online because you don't understand it's code and wasn't bundled with DW.
- PIZZA0
The whole fact you are calling it a layer says to me that you really need to ditch Dreamweaver and learn how to do things properly. It's intimidating at first but it really isn't as hard as it looks and your work will be better for it.
- inteliboy0
Started using Coda recently - had been using DW for years and have no idea why I held on for so long. I used to dread firing up DW, would slow down my machine, have all these annoying panes I'd never use, stupid "_notes" folders etc... Coda is the opposite. Clean, easy, fast. It's amazing how good software/UI can make our jobs so much more enjoyable.