Posted by jojo on 07/23/06 21:33

Neredbojias wrote:

>>>> Have just changed all my style classes from 'verdana' to 'verdana,
>>>> hevetica, arial, sans serif'
>>>> and now can't see any of my pages in design view only the code. Help!
>>>
>>> have you looked in the view menu? ..
>>
>> I've got it back.. suddenly... don't know how! But many thanks for your
>> suggestions.
>
> Relying on d/w is a bad way to start out learning how to make web pages.
> As an aid it may have some moderate value but the real fruit is reaped by
> hand-markup.

I, too, use DW. But I've never (or almost never) used the "design view".
I just use it because it can autocomplete tags, close them
automatically, ... So it is just to save time.
I know many WYSIWYG editors can do this, too, but I got Dreamweaver so
why shouldn't I use it?
And DW it can edit external Stylesheets automatically if you change the
style of any element, can handle includes, has got a FTP client, the
possibility to create & use Templates...
So you might use DW, but do not rely on the code it writes if you use
the "design view" without ever checking and correcting the code. So
especially if you are a Newbie in HTML you should learn some coding. Can
use DW, but write the code yourself.

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