I had a session with the most helpful Adamina Turek yesterday to help with designing my website. It turns out, unsurprisingly that I have been doing it all wrong.
I had used a tutorial (http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/dreamweaver1.shtml) to build my website on dreamweaver, which was very useful as far as it went. But when it came to uploading a web gallery, I had used Adobe Bridge (again following an online help page) which worked on a couple of browsers, and then broke forever.
Adamina instructed me that websites are usually designed in Photoshop first, which is exactly what I am doing, and then 'built' on dreamweaver. This obviously saves time in the design stage and a lot of messing about with coding.
There appear to be several levels on which you can design a website: using HTML code, which is a direct interface, using Dreamweaver design mode, which is a simple interface for non-experts, and CSS (cascading style sheets), which allows for complex stuff to be done quickly. Adamina has recommended a workshop if I wish to learn any HTML or CSS. I may do this, although I am not a programmer, so don't want to study more of this than I need, as I don't have that much time!
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