Here’s what they told me…

“There is no option in CSS sculptor for changing the order that content blocks are generated in. This is a change you would need to make manually after the pages have created.

I will add a feature request for engineers to consider in a future version of CSS Sculptor.”

…Fingers crossed it gets added.

I was surprised by this…”

There was a reason for that. The DW CS3 layouts shipped within a product with a huge user base that has a wide range of user expertise. Within the product there was no real method of supporting them (save the commenting… but no user manual, etc). We opted for consistency to avoid confusion.

Some of the layouts (specifically the hybrids) would be more complicated to create when floating all columns and using source order techniques. Thus, the decision was made to keep them all consistent and avoid confusion from layout type to layout type. That said, I’m completing a book about the layouts (using and extending them) so I have the ability to address customization there. But I did not have it within the product itself.

I’ve not seen the code that Web Assist and Eric created (so I can’t answer that source order question), but having a user interface as they do, they probably have more options in these areas. (Though I’d bet there were decisions made on their end as well where certain methods of coding might have been passed by to avoid “newbie confusion.” It’s the price you pay for a mass-marketed product.)

Hope that helps… :)
Stef.

I’ve seen captions in other flash videos (e.g. feature tours for Adobe CS3 products) and that was great, so I was bummed not to get it here as well.