This is probably a classic dumb question, but I did search the forums first ;-)

I am a new user, and not that good at HTML source (my main doc tool is Adobe FrameMaker), so I would prefer to edit visually. I have a simple 'website' of tech help pages that is about 6 pages, plus about 40 screen shots, that is uploaded via an SVN server, not by any direct means. I don't have even a first edition of the pages online, so nothing to show.

Platform = Win 7; tool version = HTML Editor 2010 SE build 365

So... I created a website in the proper way according to the online help; I then created a new page with a 3 column layout. The tool created an 'index.html' page which I started editing. I really had to hack the source quite a bit to get it to do what I wanted (the source and visual editors don't seem to be that well synchronised, in fact I have the distinct impression of different HTML parse & serialising happening on each mode).

Then I wanted to create a second page; if I use the same method, the wizard wants to create another index.html that will overwrite my first one. I am surely missing something simple here. I would have expected that the layout creation would have created a .css file (it didn't), a index.html (it did), and some kind of project file entry to tell the tool that all new pages should use a) the same css and b) the same layout boilerplate. I would expect that subsequent page creation to use this, but to create new pages of different names.

Obviously I am not following the correct workflow, although I am reading this straight off the CC help pages. Thanks for any pointers.

- thomas beale

Hi there, Thomas
A few points to make here.
Let's start with the HTML Editor and the Visual Editor. You are right. They do not work together, so really it is a case of one or the other used in conjunction with the Preview as the VE makes changes in the code which are not reverted when you go back to the HTML Editor.

Next - my suggestion would be to create a single page with all the structure you like, and then use that as a template for all new pages you create, obviously just renaming it each time for the appropriate page name.

Lastly, it would be wise to bear in mind that this is a code editing application and not really a page generator, so once you have a page of css code styling the pages just as you want them, you will then need to link from each new page back to the css code page. That is really easy and your link will look something like this:

and will slip in just before the </head> tag. Obviously, if you are making your own template, you will not have to remember to put that into every page as you will already have included it in your template.

Hope this helps some.