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• Mark.Stewart commented  ·  October 05, 2011 03:12  ·  Delete

  Right On! Pete, another thing about Eric's Sculptor is that is uses ID style tags in nested parent-child structures. I am often lazy and throw in class layout shapes only to inevitably watch my code fall apart as content stacks up. Nested ID's make pages immensely more stable. So here's my suggestion for the layout tool. Option nested divs. ... Hmmm. One more thing. So many layouts are like spazzed out drop box menus that drop all over page content with weird diagonal flop-flop-flops. Where was I? Oh yes, layout! lose the stupid empty columns that block content wrap. Side bars should float left and right, and complain as I did to Eric, lack of one click floating sidebars, or rather the difficulty programming them into Sculptor is a another reason why Eric gave up supporting Microsoft. Although he is a good man and still sends me ipdate keys when reinstalls knock out old keys. So lets recap, shall we?
  1. Option nested divs
  2. Floating sidebars option
  3. Expert and pro supported Web4 user blog with forum for site and page tool.
  Yes, Team leader used exactly that phrase some months ago on the telephone ... "site and page tool". Refering to a feature harking from rontPage of Yore. One final then:
  4. Insert menu access to page creator tool (with up-to-date css3 html5 featured options everywhere - like round corners, gradients, semi-transprent image backgrounds, 3d transforms, etc.

• Pete commented  ·  May 13, 2011 20:12  ·  Delete

  I am using EW4 but i keep EW 2 just for the use of CSS Sculpter. This saves so much time in the start of a new template

• PCPete commented  ·  May 13, 2011 19:48  ·  Delete

  I'm a left-hand-sidebar lover, mainly because so many web users are too, and yet that's one of the most difficult layouts to arrange properly as a new user to EW. Many of the examples included with EW use pretty hairy tricks and workarounds to achieve the same effect. It would be a much-appreciated change for me to be able to specify a number of simple parameters and have the tedium of that part of the design done for me - then I can concentrate on the content, not which div tag is missing an absolute or relative value!

• Pete commented  ·  January 30, 2011 05:40  ·  Delete

  If you have EW 2 you can still use CSS Sculpture. I only use it for the layout, then i edit everything in EW

• Jill Muir commented  ·  January 29, 2011 23:41  ·  Delete

  Yes I will vote for this as although I had limited experience of CSS Sculptor at Web Assist, before time ran out and I was unable to download more templates, I have some and they are really good.

• Pete commented  ·  January 29, 2011 22:51  ·  Delete

  Something like CSS Sculpture would be great if it can be integrated into EW. I am using EW 4 but i still have EW 2 installed so i can use CSS Sculpture. Templates with rounded corners would be better..

• Will Fastie commented  ·  January 28, 2011 23:26  ·  Delete

  This should stay in the add-in category, not be an integrated feature.

• Patricia Geary commented  ·  January 27, 2011 05:12  ·  Delete

  The code generated by the CSS Sculptor add-in was based on that of the CSS guru Eric Meyers and was standards compliant. It gave someone new to using css layouts a base project to work with. And it was commented which was a learning tool. Something along this line would be a good feature to add to the program.

• Nancy Ward commented  ·  January 26, 2011 20:43  ·  Delete

  As long as it doesn't make things more complicated than they are.

• Cheryl D Wise commented  ·  January 26, 2011 20:29  ·  Delete

  Sample sites with clean layouts that are well structured sure but I'm extremely skeptical about a layout generator. I've yet to see one that works well cross browser/platform.

• Tina Clarke commented  ·  January 26, 2011 17:29  ·  Delete

  If this could be along the lines of the late lamented CSS Sculptor by webassist that would be totally awesome. Pat and I attempted to give users something along these lines with the free site templates which are available from within the program itself. To be honest both Pat and I used the sculptor to create a basic layout then did all the tweaking within EW, so being able to do everything within the prog would really help users...

• Patricia Geary commented  ·  January 26, 2011 17:27  ·  Delete

  Would this be on the order of the CSS Sculptor one WebAssist had at one time?