I came straight from DW MX and in CS5 if I want to, for example, change the font size just for one line in an article already published, I don't see a way to do it. At the bottom under Properties, I can select "CSS" and see the font size, but it wants me to create a CSS. I have two text lines in different cells in one table, and I want them to match, and I don't want the rest of the text on the webpage to change. Yet it seems that I have to create a new CSS if I so much as breathe hard.
Is there a way to just change the text size without having to jump through all these CSS steps, which I don't like nor want?
Is there a way to just change the text size without having to jump through all these CSS steps, which I don't like nor want?
If doing it through the WYSIWYG design view, then the short answer is no. <Font> tags are deprecated which means any change in font size must be done via CSS - either inline or in your external CSS.
What Dreamweaver is asking you to do, is create a class for that font change. This means you can re-use it but you need to set the class up first. Once it's done the first time, you don't need to do it again. Give it a useful name and away you go.
In code view, your code will look something like:
<p>Text goes here and <span class="YourClassHere">this is the changed height text.</span></p>
Is there a way to just change the text size without having to jump through all these CSS steps, which I don't like nor want?
No. DW MX let you get away with bad coding habits. DW CS5 makes you use good coding practices by keeping content (HTML) separate from styles (CSS).
If you use a little pre-planning, you can quickly create all the site wide styles you need for your project with re-usable CSS classes.
table .caption {font-size: 24px}
.small-text {font-size: 10px}
Then simply apply those classes to your text from the properties panel Styles list.
Must reading:
How to Develop with CSS?
http://phrogz.net/css/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
If you use a little pre-planning, you can quickly create all the site wide styles you need for your project with re-usable CSS classes.
table .caption {font-size: 24px}
.small-text {font-size: 10px}
Then simply apply those classes to your text from the properties panel Styles list.
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I have no idea what you're talking about. And every time I need to select text elsewhere in the page, I seemingly have to create new CSS styles again.
My schedule is so cram-packed that I simply don't have time to learn CSS. Is there a quickie 10-minute tutorial somewhere? To someone who codes and does this FT, it probably sounds heretical that I'm frustrated at having to learn a new web design process simply to increase text size, but with small children, a new home, and a new job, studying videos and books on CSS is competing with other things going on in my life I consider more important. Nothing personal - just the way it is.
The paradigm of web creation has completely changed and I completely feel your pain.
Nowadays, instead of saying <make this font big make this font italic make this font red>This is the big red text</end all of the make this font stuff individually>
we create a separate style sheet that has the following:
.fontstyle-for-big-and-red {
font: big;
color: red;
font: Italic;
)
Then we call the style:
<class="fontstyle-for-big-and-red">This is the big red text</class>
Here is the advantage of that:
Now, I will be the first to admit that there is a learning curve with all of this. And it is going to take you some time to change the way you work. But, you'll make better websites and, after you have learned all of this stuff, it will be easier for you.
Your schedule being packed, you might consider hiring someone who does know this to cut down on some of the workload while you learn this.
I don't understand what the problem is with Dreamweaver. DW is just a tool - the knowledge and how to use code, whether it be HTML or CSS, comes from the user.
What is HTML Mailer? If you are referring to an HTML email, then you are mistaken as you can use CSS throughout any HTML email - you just need to change how you add that CSS. In a typical web page you will reference an external stylesheet for site wide styles. With HTML email, you can't do that so all styles are made inline or embedded. Same code, just implemented slightly different.
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