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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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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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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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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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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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