by jcook on August 3, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
Now that I’ve gotten Let’s Get Started with Dreamweaver out the door, I thought it would be a good time to catch up on a few Tips of the Day (which you may have noticed haven’t been happening lately). I have still been answering questions on Twitter as DWcourse so I’ll get back in the [...]
by jcook on April 2, 2009
Personally I considered Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe’s first upgrade to the program after acquiring it, to be a “must have” update.Obviously, a lot of you didn’t see it that way.
Lately I’ve fielded a lot of questions from people considering upgrading from Dreamweaver 8 (CS2) to Dreamweaver CS4. While it’s fairly easy to find information about the incremental updates: from DW8 to CS3 and from CS3 to CS4 (links at the end of this post) I haven’t found a source that offers an overview of what’s in store if you make the leap from 8 directly to CS4. So I’ve put together a quick overview with some brief comments of the features that await you at the end of the DW8 to DWCS4 upgrade process.