The reason that this does not work is because when absolutes are used, the elements are not aware of what is happening around them. Meaning, as someone who views the content on a smaller screen, the elements will be the same size as on the larger screen, and the layout will look different, as well as being much more cluttered and disorganized. This was one image that demonstrates what can happen with absolutes. It should have looked like this. It disrupts the nature flow of a site, and tries to smash everything into a area where it just wont fit.
Most people I know use dreamweaver to design, but none have ever talked about this as a drawback. I asked a few friends after reading the article, and they all said that they used the absolutes, because its easy to make, and looks good on their own computer. I plan on learning dreamweaver eventually, but I will have to remember how to get around this obvious problem when using this software to code. This just goes to show that you should know code well enough to find errors that software creates, or omits, so you can create the best site possible.
