[Sigia-l] How to make Dreamweaver more Visio like?

Patrick Neeman pat at nexisinteractive.com
Tue Feb 4 12:03:31 EST 2003


One of the tricks I've done in the past is create the site in DreamWeaver, and then import the HTML into Acrobat and create a PDF.
This solves some of the page number issues, and generally makes thepage look better.

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> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
> Andrew
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 8:52 AM
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] How to make Dreamweaver more Visio like?
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>
> I've been reading previous posts on the pro's and con's of Dreamweaver and
> Visio, and they were very helpful.  However, I didn't see any solutions to the
> following challenges, when making the transition from Viso to DW, as I am doing
> right now:
>
> 1.  How can I easily place and move screen elements (text, buttons, form
> controls) without having to create a separate layer for each element (which
> would make the screen pretty cluttered)?  I've thought of creating an empty
> table with many cells, so that I can move elements around, but this seems kind
> of clunky.  (ex. it seems that you need to merge cells to create indentations)
>
> 2.  Can I have "stacked" templates?  That is, a template which inherits from
> another template?
>
> 3.  Is there any easy way to create numbered pages (i.e. "1 of 25") when you
> are printing out all the pages in a site?
>
> Thanks very much for this assistance.  Also, if anyone has questions regarding
> Visio or ShapeSheets, etc.  please let me know.  I've been doing wireframes,
> site maps, and workflows for several years with this package, and I'd be glad
> to share some of what I know to folks who are starting out with this program.
>
> -Andrew
> drew2002REMOVE at ix.netcom.com
> (when emailing, take out the "REMOVE" from the address"
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