Hey im new to dreamweaver and i have a problem... i have a flash file, which is like a news ticker. i need to put it in dreamweaver. the thing is that ir runs on an external xml which gives info. i put all the files : swf , xml , and the actionscritp or wtv into thwe site folder then i inserted the flash, into the page. but when i preview, although the flash file shows, the info which was supposed to come doesnt show. so basicaaly it doesnt catch it from the xml file.. anyone knows the problem. also, the html which flash made for me alongwith the swf, if i copy the whole thing in the code if my page, the rest of the stuff on the page disappears so that doesnt work So can some dw guru help me out!
This sounds like less of a DW prob and more of an issue with the flash & xml file. Are you placing the xml file in the correct location?
Yea .. i think the prob is that the swf file does not call the xml on its own but the html that flash cs3 generates is calling it what code to add to call the xml?
Have you got any relevant code snippets DW is generating that you could paste here along with an indication of the paths to the files? If we could see some of the detail it might be a bit easier to help out
hey its k i got it .. some code prob .. anyways i have another q WHen creaqting tables, suppose u create a 2 column table , suppose u want one colum of it to have 2 rowws and the other to have 1 row how do u do that ... cose when i do new row, both columns get one more row.
HEy thanks .. i have another problem though ... i created a page layout from a blnk page. now is there anyway ican save the layout so ican use it one every page??!
Yes, you have to save it as a template with editable regions etc....but really you would need to do a tutorial my friend as this is not really a way to build a site. Making a site with tables is not very hard in Dreamweaver, there are many tutorials on the web, so I would suggest you do a full tutorial and then you'll know what you are doing. Also, although I don't really make HTML sites, it seems tables are not really the way to go, and you should be looking into coding your site using xhtml/css. There should also be plenty of tutorials about it, just google it, or maybe someone else here can point you in the right direction.
You've already got Dreamweaver so don't abandon it, but don't rely on it to totally do all the jobs you can't program yourself. To turn your tables into divs, open the file you want to convert and go to MODIFY > CONVERT > Tables to AP Divs... It's a very clunky switch and DW throws up all sorts of bulky code but you can use it to learn... understand what DW has done to convert the tables to divs and try and code cleaner yourself. Also, keep a copy of your original table-using file incase you need to restore it