How come when you work with Dreamweaver, or Frontpage, the site never looks how it is supposed to. It looks great on the net - but in the editor it is horrible.

Does anyone know a reason for this?

That'sprobably because you're seeing how the editor itself renders a page and not necessarily how a proper web browser will.

The only reliable method for previewing your pages is to use real web browsers or use an online service like www.browsercam.com

Just make sure it looks good on the net. You should be more concern on whether the site looks the same across the different browsers.

Originally Posted by netraits

Just make sure it looks good on the net. You should be more concern on whether the site looks the same across the different browsers.

That's true - it's just that I'm concerned because I created a template (.dwt) with editable regions - and there are some pages with basic data entry, but I don't want my assistant to have to run through the code - I would rather her just pop open Dreamweaver, see the editable regions, and enter away.

Is there anyway to make it look in Dreamweaver hour it looks on the net?

I would look into creating pages within a CMS, so that data is entered directly into a browser by the assistant. Dreamweaver is a great tool, but it is easily misused.

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

I would look into creating pages within a CMS, so that data is entered directly into a browser by the assistant. Dreamweaver is a great tool, but it is easily misused.

What is a CMS? I would Google it but I'm out the door

CMS = Content Management System

DW's internal 'view' mode, in CS3, is now based on the Gecko rendering engine, so it's much closer to correct than it's predecessors. Older versions of DW were based on a very outdated IE rendering mode.