OK, Dreamweaver is officially pissing me off

I’m trying to insert some level-specific style information into the header of a .dwt, right?  And Dreamweaver is not letting me.  I have spent the last two and a half hours wrestling with this finely engineered piece of bloated crap

software, reading online documentation and trying everything under the sun in the hopes that it will let me put 54 damn characters into a frakkin’ template. 

I would prefer to complete this simple task in about one minute in a code editor like BlueFish or Notepad++.  But DW is our standard, and I need to be fluent with it.  I am tired of being a dope with an important piece of software that everyone here uses. Besides if I get hit by a truck, it’s important the work I leave behind meet institutional standards. 

Anyone know any secret incantations to make Dreamweaver CS3 listen to simple instructions?


Updates:

  • The normal procedure is to open the Assets panel, select the template in question, and click on the “edit” button at the bottom.  But this did not work with the template that prompted this post.  It appears the template has to be created from the higher-level template using the “Nested Templates” function to make a template you can actually, uh, edit. This aspect was less than crystal clear from the documentation to say the least.
  • And my biggest problem with these omnibus Swiss-Army-Knife programs is they make for sloppy, disorganized code and even worse file management.  It’ll make sure something ends up on the web but it can’t think about taxonomy, etc.

Posted by George on 03/19/08 at 04:21 PM
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