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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One Dreamweaver feature that been around for a while is the Open Browser Window (OBW for short) behavior. Described simply, the behavior is a JavaScript that opens a page in a new window while at the same time specifying the size, attributes (scrollbars, resize handles. etc.) and name of the window. Once a [...]
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I recently receved this question from John via email:
You stated that Webdings were part of the Microsoft Core set of fonts that are pretty safe to use for web design….Pat had been saying for awhile that her hearts were not working on her website … and I would go and check and they were fine. [...]
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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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Update: The directions here have been updated to accomodate absolutely positioned divs. Thanks to Dianne Lewandowski for pointing out the issue.
I thought I’d expand a bit on my answer to a question from Brandon85 on Twitter. He asked:
Why is this so hard!! How do you Center a website in the browser using Dreamweaver?
Actually, it’s relatively easy [...]
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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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