Yeah i have it but i havent used it until know ive been having fun trying to learn Flash

Anyway i have some very basic layout design questions

Im i right in thinking the best way to design your layout is to use layout tables then pop layout cells inside them where you need the buttons and the links etc ?

If this is wrong whats the best method?

Thanks in advance

The strength of dreamweaver MMX is its css implementation. When creating a new page it's best to choose css layouts, available from the first menu, so your pages won't be obsolete code.

the silly question of the week when im doing the layout on dreamweaver it looks centered but in the browser its not and im selecting the center attribute when i right click the cell or table im working on : /

Use CSS instead of tables. It's probably the future (or the present) of design. Take a look if you are rally selecting the right part that should be centered.....

I found that and someone here kindly told me to put the whole page in a table and then centre that; that makes the page appear in the centre of IE.

Without looking at the code slayerx it's difficult to tell what you're up against, but I would imagine that you're running into an issue where it's assigning your alignment property to the contents of the <table> or <div> you're trying to align, rather than aligning said <table> or <div> itself, as is fairly common.

Highlight whatever portion of the layout you're having trouble with, by dragging the cursor over it with left mouse button held down, this will highlight associated code also. Go into Code view, make sure you have the beginning and ending of the layout element included in whatever you have highlighted, and make note of their location in code, then manually insert the <center></center> attribute around the layout elements that are causing you the problem. This will center layout element, whether it be center page or nested within another layout cell of any nature.

thanks for the replies great help