I am experienced in Dreamweaver and Photoshop, but the problem I have is skinning .php applications because you cannot open them in dw, for example I cannot skin smf and stuff because I dont know how to edit them. Can someone clear this up for me, cheers.
Use can use DW to create your html if you like. Then you have view the html source that has been created and copy it to the correct php file. I usually copy it to notepad or the like to remove any stray formatting then: You open the correct php file using a pure text editor like notepad2 (free) and copy the html. Really what you are doing is copying fragments of the complete page to correct php file. The confusing part is that one php page might be made up from 3-6 pages with names like header, footer, main, sidebar, rightbar etc........ So if you have designed a complete page you have to cut it into sections. I usually use the remarks tag to remind myself where each section begins and ends. I normally do the header, the main content and footer as one html page using the remarks method mentioned. If I need a left or right column I usually just do a seperate page for that portion of the content The other thing that will confuse you initially is that the <body> is only required in the header and the </body> is only required in the footer when a page is built from a group of pages. Did I help or confuse you even more?
Please feel to PM with questions. I am far from being an expert on the subject but will help if I can.
or you could just no use dreamweaver., you could learn the html and use notepad, makes it very easy integrate php and html