Dreamweaver And Wordpress (or Mt)

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I am going to post here what I asked technical support. I am not sure exactly who I should talk to and what about, as you see I am not even sure what I am asking. I am basically looking for guidence, a sense of direction:

 

The problems starts when I want to use Dreamweaver with my blog. I

don't have the time or the will to work down the little bits of PHP

code of Wordpress, the software I use, to make Wordpress work inside

dreamweaver. I want to have some sort of a tamplet, which I can desing

myself, to be "built in" wordpress. I know a bit CSS, and Dreamweaver

makes life much easier, but all that PHP code...

 

So, my question is, can you help me out and somehow make Wordpress (or

another software you recommend, I used MovableType a lot and liked it,

but I understand that MySQL is safer to use,) work with Dreamweaver so

all I have to do is to submit information and play a little with the

design if I feel like it? I don't need you guys to design me a whole

webpage, I will enjoy doing it myself - it's just that I have a

problem with fitting Wordpress into it.

 

So, any ideas? Suggestions? I already tried some toturials and asked on #IRC, but I really don't want to get to the part where I open the code ans start copying and pasting it all over the place, that's what I did today for 5 hours and I didn't get real far...

 

I am currently hosting my site at my college, and it can be found at

www.cheezcake.net . the main page is fine pretty much they way it is,

but when you click on the blog link you will see what I mean. If anyone would like to have a look, I will appriciate it.

 

Looking forward for a reply!

 

--Shay

[TCH-Dick]

You can do a lot with WordPress by just changing the CSS.

wp-layout.css explained

[arvind]

You don't necessarily need to use Dreamweaver for WYSIWYG.

 

Here's a hack for Movable Type that will implement HTMLArea into the MT Interface. HTMLArea is a pretty advanced WYSIWYG UI.

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Thanks for the help. Let me maybe try to be more specific:

 

I want to apply my webpage design to my blog webpage. I used complexed tables in dreamweaver to create the effect I want, and when I look at my code and trying to figure out php code lines to work withing the html I copy in there, it doesn't really work... I spend hours on twiking and chaning colors of fonts and placment when I did it in a matter of secconds with Dreamweaver, beacuse I could *see* what I was doing.

 

I am looking for a way for dreamweaver to "recognize" the code and present it as it looks on the site; that is, instead of that golden icon with "php" on it, I want to see the date, or at least a label that says date, or whatever that php piece does.

 

I know Wordpress has pages that explain what each line does, but the problem is the divs, the tables, the many different classes they use in the stylesheet... for example, if I change the background color in the css for my menu, it will still stay the same beacuse there's a div or something else affecting it, and it does not show in the page that exaplians about the code.

 

So, at the moment I have three questions:

 

1.) Is there a way to make Dreamweaver "understand" php and wordpress? (I read about HTMLArea, but I would really like to stick to Dreamweaver, I am trying to stay with things I understand)

 

2.) Which one, in your opinion, is more orginized and fiendly for poeple who need to mess with the css and index file (add tables for example), MT or WP?

 

3.) Does TCH offer any basic form of design to get me started? using my css and the other page as a guide? if so, for what price? if not, is there a company TCH can recommand? more of a "sandbox" area where I can experience an easier learning curve?

 

Thanks!

[TCH-Bruce]

1. I don't have an answer for this. I code using a text editor.

 

2. I use MT and modify my stylesheets to get the look I want. There are others here using Wordpress and can comment on that software.

 

3. TCH is a hosting company. They provide the space to host your website, blog and what ever else you want to host. But it is your responsibility to know how to build and upload your content.

 

A suggestion to learn stuff is to create a subdomain through cPanel or just create a folder on the server and upload the stuff you want to try out. As long as you don't provide any links to it from your main site nobody would know it's there. I would also add a line to a robots.txt file in your public_html to not allow indexing spiders like Google to index your test area.

 

You can find a tutorial on the robots.txt file here. http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm

[ronaldp423]

Please go to the support pages on the the WordPress homesite. Look for a guy named Podz. He can help. He is the most expert and active on the forum, other than Matt and Moose.

I would help , but will be away for the holidays.

 

As to the question of which is best:

 

First came GreyMatter, Then;

Moveable Type

WordPress goes way beyond Moveable Type. It is the next generation. That is the sole reason for its development in the first place.

[TCH-Rob]

Moving for organization