Dreamweaver CS3 Help

[Kassanak]

Hey Everyone!
Ok I designed a site in Firewords, I have buttons with rollover images, and have a few java script pop-up menus that fireworks lets you create with in the Modify tab. Also I have the entire image sliced, and any rollovers images I just turned into buttons. But anyway I would like to take this into dreamweaver and optimize it! By that I mean center the image in the browser, optimize it for a search engine and create a site map. Thanks for your help!
Kassanak
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[adamblan]

Sounds like it's time to learn some CSS...

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt1.html

hope this helps!

[hewligan]

In Fireworks under your export options, you can save your site as a Dreamweaver library. The file this creates can then be opened up in Dreamweaver.

I've never actually tried doing this, but it sounds like a bad idea...

[tZ]

SEO and Dreamweaver don't play well together. There isn't a magic button to clean up your code per say. Before learning CSS you should probably learn html.

[Kassanak]

Yeah I learning html as we speak! I just need to put my meta tags in and I think I will be good! So what does everyone else like to you to get started with there site!
My site is www.blacklab-designs.com (http://www.blacklab-designs.com) if anyone wants to let me know what they think!
Thanks,
Kassank

[tZ]

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[hewligan]

^^Um, yeah, what tZ said.

I'm sorry, and I don't want to be rude, but this site demonstrates exactly why you shouldn't design your website in fireworks. Well, actually, fireworks is a very good tool (even if I don't like it personally) in which to *design* a website, but it's a terrible, terrible tool to use to *build* a website.

The pages you have are entirely made up of images arranged in tables. This really wasn't actually a good idea when it was common practice - which, as I recall, was 7 or 8 years ago.

These days, that is just not considered an acceptable way to build a website at all - and it's especially unacceptable for someone who is advertising web design services.

Learn HTML. Learn CSS. Learn modern web design practice.

http://www.w3schools.com is a good place to start, but it really is just a start.

[Shiva]

About SEO: All your text is not text at all, but images, so it won't even be picked up when your site is crawled. It's just very impractical in every possible way.

So yea, HTML & CSS :)

[steve2112]

Its a shame that it is coded incorrectly. With some tweaks i think the website is pretty cool. You have some good ideas happening in the design but everything is killed by the coding. Trust me i am just starting out doing coding and once you get past your first bump its really is that dificult to get on a basic level. Since you have what it should be pretty much down it wouldn't take long at all to code it properly and everyone here would help. they did for me. Even if you don't care about our critique of the design we can help you get it compliant rather painlessly for a site like this.

If i was going to subcontract coding to someone and they sent me this site as a reference you would not get a call back. not to be mean its just not how you do it.

steve