I know this is a blog for Microsoft Office, but I do use other software and I get annoyed when the software vendor makes changes to a software and doesn’t tell the users the changes. Enter Adobe and Dreamweaver 9 or CS3.

Dreamweaver 8 and older versions had what was called Layers, but now since the buy out of Macromedia’s Dreamweaver by Adobe some things have changed. For creating websites I used to use Adobe’s GoLive 7 or CS1, but then Microsoft’s new operating system Windows Vista was released and wanted to upgrade as Adobe wouldn’t support GoLive CS1, because GoLive 8 or CS2 was released. GoLive CS1 would keep quitting on me onWindows Vista Ultimate. So I watched and waited to see when Adobe would make GoLive CS2 Windows Vista compatible, and soon learned they bought out Macromedia’s website making software Dreamweaver and as a result is dumping GoLive.

I did have Dreamweaver 8 and had heard many great things about it. So I started using that on Windows Vista Ultimate and it had compatibility issues. At the time since Dreamweaver 8 was Adobe’s latest version I was able to get some support, but realized I would wait until there next release of Dreamweaver to run cleaner on Windows Vista. In the meantime I trained myself from Dreamweaver 8 training manuals and learned all about Dreamweaver’s Layer panel.

Dreamweaver’s Layer panel allows website builders to stack or layer tables one on top of the other. Perhaps for cool effects a webmaster would have a picture and layer or stack a second picture over part of the first, but more importantly this layer box can be dragged and “positioned” to any part of the web-page when building it. The key word here is “position.” In other words, in Dreamweaver CS3 the Layer panel is now call AP Elements panel (Absolute Positioning). Interestingly Microsoft’s Office uses the same naming convention for positioning pictures or ClipArt, Absolute Positioning.

So to insert a “layer” that’s now referred to in Dreamweaver’s CS3 as “AP Div,” do the following: Insert>Layout Objects>AP Div, and then to work with the added “AP Element” look in the AP Elements panel or pull it up from: Windows>AP Elements
 

Kirt Kershaw is an authority on training Microsoft’s Office, his credentials are Certified as a Master Microsoft Office Specialist Instructor for Microsoft’s Office 2000, XP and 2003 (he’s listed on Certiport’s website), Microsoft’s Project XP certified, CompTIA’s A+ certified. In addition, he Participated in Certiport’s standard setting methodologies and procedures research project with Excel 2003 Expert exam materials.

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