Editing in Dreamweaver and Fireworks

[KGunn]

Hi, I am fairly new to actinic but have two questions. Firstly I have a design that I have created in Dreamweaver. I know I need to put it into the Act_Primary Template but I get easily confused by all the code and I am not entirely sure where I am meant to put it. Is this the best way to do it or is there some other way. Also I read in the Advanced User Guide that you can use Fireworks to design some of the website but again don't really know how to get it into Actinic.
Thanks

[pds]

..Be afraid.. Be very afraid...

I tell you something it is very difficult IMHO. The thing with the advanced guide, it literally is that - it seems to think you are a capable web designer in the first place and skips a lot of the basics that you need to know. I got some help off of a guy on this forum and very helpful he was. I have now got a basic template instead of the stock thing Actinic supply and I'm pleased with the overall look, but now I need to update all the other related html files, which is very time consuming.

I have used both Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Produce the basic design in Fireworks, and slice it up into segments and export it with a html file. Open the html file into Dreamweaver and then add the variables Actinic requires, and the buttons etc. Save it as Act_Primary.html and copy that and the related files into your site1 folder. Preview it via Actinic and see what it looks like. It's very much trial and error mate, and I wish you luck. That's more or less what I have done but it has taken me the best part of two days just to get the look I want.

[pinbrook]

the best part of two days just to get the look I want.

if it took you just 2 days you've done well!!

[pds]

hehe.. That's probably 40 hours all in all, just for the template. I now need to change the product layout so that I can get three per row instead of the obligatory one. Hmmm...

[cdicken]

I now need to change the product layout so that I can get three per row instead of the obligatory one. Hmmm...

There is a solution in the knowledge base for this HERE.

Also a good introduction for design with Actinic can be found in the 'Designing with Actinic Developer' guide (see the link in my signature).