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Name: Tim Daily
Location: Apex, NC, US, Sol 3
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First, let me say that from a graphics perspective you do very good work. You're probably like me a couple years back, quite well versed in print graphics and wanting to add web design to that list of skills. I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that trying to do this in Dreamweaver without knowing any code is going to leave you pretty frustrated. The good news is that with a graphics background, learning CSS especially is easy, because it just makes sense.
The reason it's so hard to get things positioned where you want is that DW uses the CSS selector/property position:absloute; for EVERYTHING. It's about the equivalent of shoving a thumb tack in something, then dragging it where you want and shoving in another thumb tack. It also puts everything in table cells, but if a new user doesn't know anything about tables (which using for layout now is outdated anyway) he'll usually end up with a mess.
As you have it now, in the divs you have text in (normally those would go in <p> elements, and the product list in an unordered list, but you'll learn about this) you can change it to <div class="classname"> (substitute whatever name you like) and in the CSS you would put style rules postioning the text with .classname as the class. There is a better way to do it, but it will require you to learn some code. Even to do it this way, which I'd say is the hard way, you'll still have to learn some code.
Check out http://www.w3schools.com. Check out their free HTML and CSS tutorials. Keep using Dreamweaver, but don't rely on its design mode.
I really wish I could give you a short answer to this, but did I mention that for the questions that I'm sure you'll have along the way, you can feel free to ask them here?
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