Are You Ready to Dominate Dreamweaver?

September 8, 2009

Enrollment is now open. Sign up now…
On Sept 14th I opened registration on a full-fledged, interactive online Dreamweaver course. It will begin by building on the material I’ve already covered in Let’s Get Started with Dreamweaver and walk you step by step through the learning process until you’re able to create the visually stunning and [...]

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Dreamweaver Windows bug: Problems selecting local root folder

August 17, 2009

Important Update: I’ve recently seen a report that this bug can affect the selection of folders using the Find in menu of the Search and Replace dialog. Obviously searching and replacing in the wrong folder can have very dire consequences. So, if you choose to use the Find in Folder… option in Dreamweaver for Windows, [...]

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Using the font tag in Dreamweaver CS4

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 [...]

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What version of Dreamweaver do you use?

July 31, 2009

The response to my What version of Dreamweaver do you use? poll wasn’t overwhelming but I got enough responses (20 and counting) to make the results interesting. I’m going to keep the poll open in hopes of getting additional feedback(as I get more responses, I’ll add them here) but here’s a summary of the results [...]

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Open Browser Window and Bring to Front

July 23, 2009

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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FireFox and the Webdings font

July 13, 2009

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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Recovering Lost Site Definitions

July 6, 2009

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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