I would say im a begginner at designing websites in Dreamweaver, and I just cant understand inserting text into my pages.

 

What is the best way of doing it?

 

Im finding it difficult to position my text without it changing the rest of the page or restricting me to where I can place the text on the page.

 

Im sure this is because I do not fully understand the correct way of inserting text into Dreamweaver, so if anybody could help me I would really appreciate it.

 

(I am using Dreamweaver CS4)

 

Thanks

How are you trying to input text at the moment, or where is the text going

Im creating a table, inserting all of the images I want on the page in seperate cells/rows/columns and then I am making a new column or row for my text, typing the text in and then editing the colour/sites/etc using the CSS bar on the right side.

Using tables is probably the best way, but I have sometimes found with dreamweaver is that if you add new text the whole page goes funny and images end up further down the page, but by clicking out of the main table usually puts the page back, with the new text in place (if that makes sense)

not sure what you mean about putting the page back? could you explain a bit more

 

im not really having a problem inserting text, its just that when its on the page it seems very hard to change the position of the text and move a block of text around the page without messing everything else up like you said.

Yeh wasn't sure it made sense. I always have a similar problem when I edit my works Intranet page in dreamweaver, I try to move text but then the page goes all funny.

 

Have you tried inserting a table inside a table and editing the text that way.

 

What I do is: I have my table, when I edit text or images the page doesn't look correct, but if I was to click outside of the table say just to the left of the table for some reason it all reverts back to normal.

If you could get a pic of the page that moght help some of the others who are on here

Don't use tables. Use CSS Learn it Here

Don't use tables. Use CSS Learn it Here

 

I know CSS but seeing as I only ever web design is for works intranet I get lazy especially when I'm busy

Forget tables and learn CSS (Style Sheets) and build your pages using divs

 

If you're copying and pasting text, be careful if you use MS Word as it sometimes copies the styles and may override your css

I would say im a begginner at designing websites in Dreamweaver, and I just cant understand inserting text into my pages.

 

What is the best way of doing it?

 

Im finding it difficult to position my text without it changing the rest of the page or restricting me to where I can place the text on the page.

In all honesty Dreamweaver probably isn't the best tool for a beginner, and I suspect the problems you are having may be because you don't yet understand how HTML and CSS works. Working solely in WYSIWYG ("design mode") won't really teach you much either.

 

Your best course of action would be to learn the basics first - http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-intro...-standards-cur/ has some excellent reading and the first 37 sections deal with marking up HTML and styling with CSS.

Yep gotta agree with the majority, Dreamweaver is a pro design tool, not a shortcut to building sites without any knowledge of code.

 

Have a look at my sig couple of very good starting points

Ok thanks for the advice guys, I did suspect it was a problem because I didnt understand html.

 

I will read up on CSS, but if anyone could let me know how to overcome this text problem i'd really appreciate it as I need to get it sorted asap! And im not sure how long it will take for me to read up on CSS before I know how to do the text/