[Maxine]

Hi everyone

Have just spent yonks going through tutorials and cant find anywhere how to centre align pages in dreamweaver.. I am hoping that some kind soul out there will take pity on me and tell me the secret

Thanks everyone

[PI Guy]

http://www.utexas.edu/its/training/h...DreamweaverGS/

[Maxine]

Thanks very very much

[PremierPDS]

Hi Max, I'm no Dreamweaver expert but check you're in the right view. can't remember which one it is but it'll only work in standard view I think. Go to the property inspector and there should be a drop down menu that says 'align' and under there it'll give you the option to centralise the page. Someone will probably give you a much better explanation than this but it's worth a try in the meantime. Like I said I don't claim to be an expert lol!

[Maxine]

Thank you I think I have done it (not sure)

[Interconnect IT]

Maxine - I don't want to sound funny... but you do offer websites as a professional service....

[Maxine]

ha ha... but I was doing these before in publisher as basic web sites... very basic!!! and these suited the needs of my customers who were mostly our subcontractors and colleagues

[SteveB]

define your body tag like this:

body {
text-align: left;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 760px;
background: #ffffff;
color:#000000;
}

where width is the fixed width of the page

If your not doing so already, you might want to do the following as well:

/* Reset the basics */
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

a img, iframe { border: 0; }

/* Set up some basics */
body, div, form, ul, li, td, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #000000;
}

puts you on a more even playing field between browsers (well latest release versions anyway )

Steve

[Interconnect IT]

Maxine, in that case a very worthwhile book, in my humble opinion, is CSS, The Missing Manual.

I think it's probably the best off-the-shelf guide to designing with CSS. Before this firm I was a developer, rather than designer, but needed to get quickly up to speed - it's probably the best book I've come across for learning to do things the 'right' way. Dreamweaver is a fine enough tool for many, but I feel that you need an understanding of how to do it without DW first if you want to make the most of the software.

[Maxine]

Thanks Steve