Does Dreamweaver software use CSS style sheets to ensure consistent line spacing?

Question

I am trying to find out if my web designer is incompetent. I want the line spacing on my web site to be consistent and he refers to it as 'tiny increments of space'. He said he measured each line down to the pixel and it still is not right. He also said he printed and checked each page. But the printed page looks different from the online page (as far as spacing) now and so that does not make sense. That also worries me - what did he do that the printed pages now don't mirror the online version? I am afraid I won't be able to update my page myself after he finishes.

Answer 1

1) If he's a professional he doesn't use Dreamweaver. (DW is like a gene marking a wannabe developer. Experienced developers "see" the site in the code, we don't need a WYSISYG toy to design it.)



2) DW doesn't use anything - the developer has to write style sheets if he wants to use style sheets.



3) Printed text doesn't look like on-screen text. It just doesn't.



4) Learn web development if you want to do the development. Don't take a developed site and expect to "update" it, unless there's a page on which you make your updates (like adding to, deleting from and modifying the database that drives the site). Every developer has his own little ways of doing things, and changing one little dot can destroy the whole page.



5) If you want a site designed the way you like it designed, first find such a site. Then look for the developer's contact info and contact him/her. Trying to get a developer to develop what you see in your mind is called mind reading, and you won't find many people who are really good at it. Find what you like, don't expect to have someone figure out what you like. At worst, have the developer draw the site for you on paper (not print it). Then he can develop the site you modified - on paper.

Answer 2

Hi Kari,



A few things. Dreamweaver is a fine tool for web design / html and css editing. When you use the design view of Dreamweaver, if you adjust font size and color and whether its body text or h1 or h2 text etc, Dreamweaver can / will insert inline css (as html) in that page. OR you can create a css document and link it to the html page and then highlight text and select the CSS type you want to apply based on your css document. So, it will either be inline css on each page - or it will link a css document and apply that css to your page.



Also, as for printing the page. Web browsers display webpages very differently than printers "see" them. To control the print layout you have to create a CSS document specifically for the print command. This means you would have 2 css docs attached to that html page - one for the browser to read and display and one for your printer to read and display. Fun times!



As for being able to update your pages later, if you have dreamweaver or basic html know how, that is pretty easy to do - manually updating text and then re-uploading the new version of that page. It can be tricky if the css styling is inline or not standardized though.



Hope this helps. Good luck!

Justin

Answer 3

yes it has CSS style sheet. Web design is extremely complex. It is the hardest software that I ever learned. Printed pages do sometimes look different than web pages.