I uninstalled VSD 5.9.4 and HTML 2008 and installed VSD 5.3 and HTML 2007.

VSD 5.3 has all kinds of problems matching what VSD shows and what is actually displayed on the web page. Positioning and spacing is WAY off. And, it is not playing with Web video correctly--what I get in "Preview" is DEFINITELY not what I get on the web site.

HTML 2007 is more robust than 2008, but I am still having problems doing basic things, like placing a colored block on screen and putting text in the box.

I have to have a somewhat professional looking and content rich web page. I am wondering whether these are the tools for the job.

atlascott,

If you want place a colored block on screen with text in the screen, I suggest you use the HTML editor and some CSS in the head of your page (or use a separate CSS file.


Then in the body of your page, you can use something like:


You can play around with adding lots of text, and see what happens with you remove the height and width entries in the CSS, and change any of the entries in the CSS and you can view the results in the HTML editor immediately.

And if you don't like the orange color, just change the first entry to some other color, or use RGB or HEX code for the color.

Hope this helps.

Hi atlascott,
Did you see Scott's post here:
http://www.coffeecup.com/forums/our-des … -solution/