From the category archives:
When you’ve been creating web pages as long as I have, it’s easy to start thinking you’re hot stuff. Then along comes some perfectly obvious little html shortcut that you’ve been overlooking for a decade. It tends to humble you pretty quickly!
And judging by the response at the DreamweaverClub.com forum, I wasn’t the only one [...]
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I feel a bit stupid. In my recent Stop “Untitled Document” in Dreamweaver post I reported what I thought was a very clever way to find pages titled “Untitled Document” using Dreamweaver’s search function. It turns out there’s a built-in function that will will do the job:
Select menu: Site>Reports…
In the reports dialog:
Leave Current Local Site selected [...]
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If you’re like most folks, you occasionally forget to re-title you pages in Dreamweaver and then look foolish when you end up with pages titled “Untitled Document” (see Google search for “Untitled Document”). I like to check all my page titles before uploading a site but it’s a pain to open every document and it [...]
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A lot of folks are whining and moaning because Dreamweaver CS4 now enforces the use of CSS styles rather than HTML attributes for formatting. One of the things this means is no more font tag (and its related attributes).
That’s a good thing in my book. No more code like this:
<p><font color=”#003399″ size=”5″ face=”Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif”>paragraph [...]
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My iMac recently froze up and, when I – eventually – recovered from the forced shut down and restart, I discovered my Dreamweaver preferences had been reset to the default settings and, even worse,
ALL 50 OF MY SITE DEFINITIONS HAD DISAPPEARED!
I have my site definitions backed up (most of them anyway) but the option of [...]
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Another problem often experienced by Dreamweaver noobies is:
I’ve updated my site in Dreamweaver and it looks fine when I preview it but after I upload it the changes don’t show up on the site.
Let’s eliminate the easiest solution first. Did you refresh your browser window? When you view a page on the web, your browser [...]
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I frequently get questions like this:
My site works fine on my computer but when I upload it the [fill in the blank] are broken.
My first response is one I use to address of lot of issues: Make sure your site is properly defined. It’s critical enough that I wrote a tutorial, Define Your Site, for [...]
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