Re: lost fluid grid layout

Hi Nancy,

My operating system is Windows 7, run at our health corporation, (so I can't upgrade to Windows 8 or 8.1.)

Im running Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Cloud built 6733 - the latest version as of today.

The problem I have been experiencing match up with those of many other users over the last 2 years.  There's quite a few posts reporting the same type of thing that I am.  Basically it's to do with the Fluid layout controls and the icon on the toolbar that first appears once you've created a new webpage controlled by the fluid layout stylesheet.  These are first there, but after restarting DW they are gone.

i.e.

1. I create an HTML5 webpage saved as 'default.asp'  and a fluid grid stylesheet named fg-styles.css.
2. The Fluid Grid layout controls are all there.  (I am doing nothing else, no injection of code nothing.)
3. Then I close Dreamweaver
4. On reopening of Dreamweaver and all files, when looking at the default.asp file in Design view, the fluid grid hide/show icon on the toolbar and the fluid grid controls when clicking inside the fluid div no longer show.

I get this every single time, even after rebooting my computer.

The controls also strangely disappear during a session when I am adding new blocks within the fluid grid panel.

I am so close now from discontinuing using this tool and looking elsewhere for fluid grid solutions.

It seems such a powerful tool, but what use is it if it is unstable.  Really, DW should not roll out such tools until they have been proven to work reliably.

Also documentation should be provided that makes clear when this tool cannot be used reliably and workaround solutions.

I have now spent a solid 10 hours on this, and created countless versions of the same page.

Admittedly at one stage I discovered that when adding the classic ASP line above my HTML5 code that this would not work after Dreamweaver saved my document as an .asp file, but even .html files still experience all kinds of bugs with this tool.

I hope this kinda explained what problems I am facing.

Thanks again for your time.

I will now move on to other fluid grid solutions, but am happy to re-look at the DW tool if there is a sure-fire way that fixes my problems.

Andreas