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Indeed. HTML is a structural language and should contain nothing that influences your design. All design should be external in a CSS file - http://www.w3schools.com is a great start if you want to learn, then head over to http://www.csszengarden.com and see what you can do with CSS!
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Indeed. Such a lovely site.
Justin, if you need a hand in any way let us know. I'd be happy to help out for one.
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What I really hate is the:
"Best viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer at 800 x 600 resolution or above."
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[insert name of prefered non-microsoft browser] FOR THE WIN.
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Opera FTW!!
My boss has a terrible case of "MSIE compatibility only" with his sites. Of course when a client rings up and asks why it looks like a train wreck in his Firefox browser muggins gets drafted to fix it up.
And do you think he'd use stylesheets? Nope. <style> blocks on every page. Each with its own little difference. Bah.
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it makes the text a nice colour
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Haha, this is why I like it too - don't use any of the WYSIWYG features whatsoever.
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On the whole Dreamweaver thing. I really like the program because you can turn off the autoformatting options and it makes the text a nice colour
Seriously though, without the WYSIWYG bits, it's a nice tool.
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Without the WYSIWYG bits its a text editor 
Which is why i stick to Edit+/TextPad or something like that they all have the syntax highlighting (text colouring) and when you come to write scripts PHP/JS/JSP i always think you write better code if you already know the souce code of the page you are writing to.
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Bah! Edit+ beats all hands down. Syntax highlighting and built in FTP what more could you want!
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Heh I don't want FTP in my editor, but I would like word-wrap occasionally - which this has - thanks for the link!
I've been using PFE for years - 'Notepad with line numbers' (but no word wrap) and not a lot else; I know you can turn all the 'auto-' junk off in Dreamweaver, but I couuld never get used to working within an 'environment'.
I used something called HotDog Pro back in the dark ages when Dreamweaver was nothing more than a bad joke, but more often than not I found myself in PFE & Notepad; now, even though I have access to Dreamweaver (and these days it doesn't actually suck) I still use PFE exclusively simply becuase it takes about a second to load and I don't have all that clutter.
Unfortuantely, although PFE is free, it hasn't been updated in years and coloured text can be useful. I'm going to give Edit+ a try 
Edit+ is excellent - if work didn't willingly lob the money my way for Dreamweaver, it's what I'd use
(if anyone from my work reads this, I do really know how to use the expensive software you've bought me and I don't merely use it as a pretty version of notepad!!)
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Without the WYSIWYG bits its a text editor
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Yeah, but it's a damn fine text editor
Plus I find it handy having a list of all my sites pages, along with the built in FTP and, something I really like are the extentions. Even without the WYSIWYG, there are enough little things in it to speed up coding... for me at least.
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when you come to write scripts PHP/JS/JSP i always think you write better code if you already know the souce code of the page you are writing to.
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Too right, especially if you're integrating with Flash where unwanted doctypes, spans and paragraphs just screw up the code.
Dreamweaver in WYSIWYG mode just messes up code completely though.
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most of them argue that if it can be done in HTML what is the point in learning something new
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I get this all the time. Very frustrating - the same people who insist on using Internet Explorer as a web design tool!
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What I really hate is the:
"Best viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer at 800 x 600 resolution or above."
brigade
[insert name of prefered non-microsoft browser] FOR THE WIN.
On the whole Dreamweaver thing. I really like the program because you can turn off the autoformatting options and it makes the text a nice colour
Seriously though, without the WYSIWYG bits, it's a nice tool.
Amenta