Guest SaraW Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Right now I'm working with the design of my CubeCart shop on Dremaweaver MX. To be able to work with the shop and see it at the same time I went to the website where my shop is located and saved the site together with it's stylesheets so that I could view the changes directly when working on dreamweaver. The problem is that when I preview the saved site on my browsers (IE and Firefox) the site is completely diffrent from how it really looks. I know that Dreamweaver does render sites badly, but it's practically beyond recognition. Does anyone have an idea on how I can make changes to my site while seeing them and how my site would look with them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roban Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I use Joomla Stand Alone Server. There are some configuration issues when you want to import the database back into your CC database but not overwhelming ones. It's the way I work on all sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SaraW Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Would you or someone else care to explain how I will be able to use it? And what is needed? Can I download it? I'm very new to this... thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roban Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I am PM-ing you the details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyjoe Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Another approach - the one I use - is edit the files on my local disk using PHPdesigner (www.mpsoftwareweb.com). I've configured PHD so it will edit PHP, CSS, JS, HTML and TPL. I then upload the edited files and flip over to the browsers to see what the changes look like. Sounds awkward but really isn't if you use keyboard shortcuts such as ALT-tab to jump between the open tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I am PM-ing you the details Hi roban, can you let me have same info please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bholland Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Yeah, jerseyjoe is pointing you in the right direction. Dreamweaver won't do what you're looking for here. I use it as a text editor to write code in, but it will never render your site correctly because of the server side processing that needs to occur. Unless you're going to install a local version of Apache, I'd recomend using DW just as a text editor and then uploading your files via FTP (which you can do via DW) and seeing how everything looks. DW does have decent functionality for managing test vs. live sites. B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vrakas Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I also found this post usefull and use it all the time among with crimson editor, i perform all the changes locally :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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