Restore the timelines feature in DW CS5.
Go to your user folder > Library > Preferences
Open “Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Prefs” in a Texteditor
Search for [FEATURE MANAGEMENT]
set timeline=TRUE
Put the timline folder from configuration of any version that has it (cs3 does) here:
/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver\ CS5/en_US/Configuration/Behaviors/Actions/
Restart Dreamweaver and you should have timelines again. Just add a selected div from the Modify:Timelines menu and the timelines window will appear.
Also, you can get the window toggle command back by editing your Menis.xml from:
/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver\ CS5/en_US/Configuration/Menus/Menus.xml
Add this:
BELOW this:
]]>“Site map & timelines ” 2 great features that none of the other competitors have.
]]>A couple of points:
1. If you want to get into ASP.NET, then you want to go with Visual Studio or maybe Web Expression.
2. If you want to build Flash based front ends, you will have to fight a little with Microsoft products because they have a Flash competitor – Silverlight.
3. If you want to build Flash front ends and keep Dreamweaver, then go with PHP. Check it out: http://www.killerphp.com
Stefan
]]>Anyhow I guess my question is Should I go with MS Visual Studio or Should I go with CS3(but CS3 only has support for ASP.NET 1.1) or should I go with CS4 and if I do go with CS4 does CS4 Would I have the ability to do my ASP.NET stuff in a different program like Visual Stuido and than the design part in CS4 and be able to combine the two halfs into a whole rich flash based web browser game site with ASP.NET as the back end ?
err so stressed over this cause I do want to use ASP.NET 2.0 and higher and CS4 but don’t know if there is a way to have both come together
Please help with some advice
Dan.
]]>… These days, the wysiwyg features are much less important because the technology behind web pages is much improved – I’m talking about HTML, CSS and the web browser themselves.
Stefan
]]>I’ve been playing with it for a couple of weeks, and I do not see any reason to upgrade the Dreamweaver. Maybe if I had used it a little more in the past, then maybe I might want it.
Any other TopStyle 4 fans out there?
I’d like to see a video on some of the new stuff on it.
]]>This is a classic problem people new to web design discover: that using Dreamweaver does not solve for the lack of basic web design skills. In the end, it is still important you understand basic web design!
You solution is to learn HTML and CSS basics so that you can pop into Dreamweaver’s code view and make your changes. My beginners course will do the trick:
http://www.killersites.com/web-design/
Stefan
]]>I would say Dreamweaver is easy enough to learn … especially with the help of my videos!
😉
http://www.killersites.com/dreamweaver/dreamweaver-cs3-videos.php
Stefan
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