God Damn Dreamweaver CS4 - CSS Style Crap!!!

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AtlanticP

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Why is it when I use Dreamweaver CS4 and try to change any aspect of the layout i.e. fonts, bold type etc I get a stupid god damn New CSS rule box pop up.
All I want to do it change the font, whether its bold or not and the size of the font. I know nothing about CSS etc as I have always just been able to select the font etc from a box at bottom left corner as I used to do with DW CS3.

If I manage to actually change a font to bold etc it changes everything on the entire page. I know I am crap at website building etc but ffs this is proper annoying me now.

Any help would be gratefully received.
 
download Notepad++ and open the style sheet in that. Learn some CSS.

I know this doesn't really help you with this issue but if you take a little time to learn CSS, and it really doesn't take long, you wouldn't need to rely on Dreamweaver. Or at least read the CSS in dreamweaver before and after changing something so you start to be able to read the code.

As stated, just post the stylesheet here and we can look at it. :)
 
Using DW is fine as long as you don't rely on its functionality. You shouldnt ever need DW to do web development.
 
Go back to CS3 then?
AFAIK, they're now trying to cater more for people who don't rely on design view. The reasoning is fairly simple as well, from what I had read, they found far more people work in code view so they're trying to concentrate more on them.

Edit: Just tried in design view and highlighted a word. Using both ctrl b and also the properties bar on the bottom, I was able to turn selected text bold without problem.
 
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Thanks Guys, I have enough learning to do at the moment with college starting in September for Anatomy and Physiology, don't fancy trying to learn much else right now. Will go back to CS3 which will be fine for what I need to do as far as web development is concerned.

Thanks Again, Regards

AP
 
With version cs4 they seem to have made it harder to use not better. If you highlighted text before you could type in a link no problems now you have to mess about trying to find how to enter it.

I have a page http://www.crewetown.co.uk/old.htm it shows you anything just a blank page not text no pics nothing FP etc opens it just fine
 
Sounds like an improvement if it knows your using tables for layout and refuses to show it..
 
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