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1. Re: Commenting Out Library Code
Nancy O. Mar 10, 2011 1:15 PM (in response to Shan-Dysigns)If you post a link, you'll get better help. I'm guessing you're positioning the footer with absolute or fixed positioning which is causing DW Design View to hiccup. How does it look in Live View?
I don't think it's possible to comment out a library item (or any other DW proprietary code).
Another reason to use Server-Side Includes.
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2. Re: Commenting Out Library Code
Shan-Dysigns Mar 10, 2011 2:29 PM (in response to Nancy O.)If you post a link, you'll get better help.
My original reason for the post was about the Library code and commenting it out. The footer issue was really just a secondary issue. The page in Live View looks the same as in the browser view (example above). This is why I thought something in Design View must be unhappy because the page looks as it should outside of DV.
I figured out the issue from the last post of mine you had replied to http://forums.adobe.com/message/3516699#3516699
I had closed a div tag too early (it was inside another div which was keeping it from expanding to the min-height pf 100%). I'm not sure why you hate rollover images so much and point that to saving people usage space for IF they are viewing the page on a mobile device. I'm not including people on mobile devices as part of the targeted demographic for this website (at least not at this stage in development). I looked at your css idea for menus, but I quickly noticed it wasn't IE compatible. I'm in the same boat of other designers who can't wait until IE9 comes out because as of now, IE < version 9 is just horrid! I looked at the IE equivalent for those filters, and IE's version of the Glow is also horrid. So, for reasons I explained in the previous post, I pretty much need to stick with the messy techniques I've started and make them work.
If this helps, I've uploaded what I think is enough to see what I'm facing.
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3. Re: Commenting Out Library Code
Shan-Dysigns Mar 10, 2011 2:49 PM (in response to Nancy O.)Another reason to use Server-Side Includes.
As much as one may know about the software they possess, there are times in which features are simply overlooked. I tried this out, and I can't imagine anyone actually using Library items now. I wish I knew more about DW than I do - I'm deep into Photoshop and the like - DW is still a learning experience in certain areas.
Seeing the results of SSI (without having to upload to a server) either resort to Live View (which I would imagine has some limitations in general), and setting up a testing server. I read up on testing servers, and I see XAMP seems to be the software to use. I imagine that's one of many, but what's your experience with testing servers - meaning, is this the proper software - any others to include in the choice? Being self-taught has its limitations too ya know...
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4. Re: Commenting Out Library Code
John Waller Mar 10, 2011 9:19 PM (in response to Shan-Dysigns)Definitely use a testing server to speed up dynamic web development.
XAMPP or WAMP are the two most popular all-in-one (Apache, MySql, PHP) options for Windows.
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5. Re: Commenting Out Library Code
Nancy O. Mar 11, 2011 1:21 PM (in response to Shan-Dysigns)If this helps, I've uploaded what I think is enough to see what I'm facing.
As an FYI, your page content falls out of the box when end-users increase default text-size in their browsers (Firefox, View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only), hit Ctrl+++.
See screenshot below where I've highlighted dark text on dark background to be visible:
Height: value in pixels is a restriction in all browsers except IE. If needed to reveal a background image, use values in ems or the min-height property with Conditional Comments for pre-IE7 browsers.
CSS:
#homeContent {
position: relative;
width: 892px;
min-height:400px;}
Conditional Comment:
<!--[if lt IE 7]> <style type="text/css"> #homeContent { height: 25em } </style> <![endif]-->Nancy O.
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