Posted by Neredbojias on 07/24/06 12:00

To further the education of mankind, jojo <jojo.hafner@gmx.de>
vouchsafed:

> 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.

You remind me of dorayme. Be ye Australian or just verbose?

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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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