Couple of Newbie Questions

I'm new to Dreamweaver CS3 and have a couple of quick questions:

1) I'm trying to preview the site I'm building will look on IE7 but can't see
to locate a application that I can download to preview it on my mac. Any
solutions

2) In my header I have a layered image from illustrator and am trying to get a
spry menubar to fix itself in the place where I want it in relation to the
image (using absolute positioning). It looks fine in the preview in Firefox
and Safari but if I resize the browser everything moves except for the menubar.
Is there a way to allow the menubar to be fixed in relation to the jpeg it is
on top of, or not allow the page to be resized if the browser is resized?

3) I'm trying to learn everything about this program from the basics on up.
Any suggestions on a really good book that can help with design an not just
tell me what the program can do. I'm fairly savy and have checked out the "CS3
Bible" but that wasn't much help. I think I've figured more out by trial and
error.

Thanks,

Joel

1) I'm trying to preview the site I'm building will look on IE7 but can't
see
to locate a application that I can download to preview it on my mac. Any
solutions

Purchase Parallels and a copy of windows. Install them and then you can
check in IE7.

Short of that, you'd have to use some online tool like BrowserCam. But I
really suggest getting parallels + windows, as that's one of the big
benefits of doing web dev on a Mac...having access to all major browsers.

2) In my header I have a layered image from illustrator and am trying to
get a
spry menubar to fix itself in the place where I want it in relation to the
image (using absolute positioning).

If you want it in relation to the image, than I think you probably want
relative positioning.

Avoid absolute positioning.

3) I'm trying to learn everything about this program from the basics on
up.
Any suggestions on a really good book that can help with design an not
just
tell me what the program can do.

Learn HTML + CSS first.

_Darrel

2) AP Layers imported from graphics programs = big problems. Graphics
programs don't export the best code. Much better to save image slices first
then reassemble them in tables or relatively positioned CSS divisions in DW.

3) This is an excellent tutorial even if you use Illustrator or Photoshop:
"Taking a Fireworks comp to a CSS-based layout in Dreamweaver"
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/firework...youts_pt1.html

If this makes no sense to you, go back to basics and study html and CSS code
first:
www.w3schools.com

--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com

"haolejoe" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I'm new to Dreamweaver CS3 and have a couple of quick questions:

1) I'm trying to preview the site I'm building will look on IE7 but can't
see
to locate a application that I can download to preview it on my mac. Any
solutions

2) In my header I have a layered image from illustrator and am trying to
get a
spry menubar to fix itself in the place where I want it in relation to the
image (using absolute positioning). It looks fine in the preview in
Firefox
and Safari but if I resize the browser everything moves except for the
menubar.
Is there a way to allow the menubar to be fixed in relation to the jpeg
it is
on top of, or not allow the page to be resized if the browser is resized?

3) I'm trying to learn everything about this program from the basics on
up.
Any suggestions on a really good book that can help with design an not
just
tell me what the program can do. I'm fairly savy and have checked out the
"CS3
Bible" but that wasn't much help. I think I've figured more out by trial
and
error.

Thanks,

Joel

As well as the links below - another way to learn (including anyone else's bad
habits) is to find a page you like, and then tell your web browser to show you
the code view for the page and/or do a "Save As" and save the page to your
computer to then copy & paste code segments into your file (in IE click View at
the top, select Source from the options)

HTML and/or DW Tutorials
http://validator.w3.org/
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
http://www.scriptarchive.com/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
http://alistapart.com/topics/code
Download User Guide PDF for easy search
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation
http://lynda.com/ Hours of videos. (must pay)
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/index.htm
If not PDF (link above) an online guide to read
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0/
Customizing the layouts that come with CS3 (VIDEO)
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/vi...op/?id=vid0155
For those using MySQL - Installing PHP and MySQL on Windows XP
http://www.webassist.com/professiona...ionrecipes.asp
Community MX lessons http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=3D074
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designc...amweaver&go=Go