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Time to Learn PHP? Dreamweaver CS5 Is Here to Help You
Jul 12, 2010
David Powers, author of Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP: Training from the Source, discusses the dramatic improvements to PHP support in Dreamweaver CS5 that should appeal to designers and serious coders alike.
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Modifying Drupal Themes with Dreamweaver CS5
May 18, 2010
In this tutorial, David Karlins shows how easily you can change the look and feel of a Drupal website with the help of new features in Dreamweaver CS5.
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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 Classroom in a Book: Creating Style Sheets for Other Media Types
Apr 14, 2010
By creating and attaching style sheets optimized for other media, the specific browsing application can select the appropriate style sheet and formatting for its own needs. In this exercise, you’ll convert a CSS screen-media file to one optimized for print.
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Page Design in Dreamweaver CS4 with apDiv Tags
Apr 20, 2009
Short of coding your own CSS, the apDiv feature in Dreamweaver CS4 gives you as much flexibility and convenience in page design as you'll find in any environment. David Karlins provides a tour of this handy tag and its features for speedy web page creation.
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Creating an Attractive, Useful Form in Dreamweaver CS4
Apr 14, 2009
If you need to collect input from your website's visitors, David Karlins has some ideas to share on how you can do that without having to hire a staff of programmers and database managers. In just a few steps, you can post forms for visitors to send you feedback, join your organization, or whatever.
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Embedding Live Data in Dreamweaver CS4 with Spry Data Sets
Mar 10, 2009
David Karlins shows how to use a new feature in Dreamweaver CS4 to update your web content with live data - automatically.
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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 How-Tos: Designing Pages with Absolute Placement Objects
Dec 5, 2008
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Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 How-Tos: Using Framesets
Nov 21, 2008
Learn how to generate and format at frameset and define links between frames.
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Creating an External Style Sheet in Dreamweaver CS4
Sep 23, 2008
External style sheets have many powerful advantages that make them ubiquitous in professional Web sites. In this excerpt, adapted from Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-321-56289-5), David Karlins shows the easiest way to generate style sheets in Dreamweaver.
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Creating Tables in Dreamweaver CS4
Sep 23, 2008
This excerpt, adapted from Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book (Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-321-57381-1), tells you why, when, and how to use tables in your site design.
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Quick Panels and Menu Bars from Dreamweaver's Spry Widgets
Dec 28, 2007
David Karlins unveils Dreamweaver CS3's new secret weapon: Spry widgets. With these powerful quick-creation devices, you can whip up tabbed pages or menu bars in your web pages in a snap.
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Mastering Vector Design: Drawing with Illustrator Paintbrushes
Dec 21, 2007
David Karlins explores the multi-varied world of Adobe Illustrator's Paintbrush tool, showing how to customize the built-in brushes and even create unique and eye-catching new strokes of your own.
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How to Export a Site Design From Fireworks to Dreamweaver
Sep 8, 2006
After you create and finalize your site's design in Fireworks, you can turn your attention to moving the design from Fireworks to Dreamweaver. Moving the design is a two-step process that involves image optimization and file export. In this lesson, you'll learn techniques for optimizing graphics. In addition, you'll work with various export settings to prepare the Fireworks document for export. In the process, you'll become familiar with Fireworks' Optimize panel and the Export HTML setup process, mastering the techniques used to find the best optimization and export settings for your original design.
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Can Microsoft Expression Web Designer Touch Dreamweaver?
Sep 1, 2006
Look out, Dreamweaver. Consider Microsoft Expression Web Designer as Dreamweaver's new rival. Meryl Evans tells you why you shouldn't look at this competition in the iPod vs. everybody way, but instead in the Dell vs. HP way.
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Create Text-Based Links in Dreamweaver 8
Aug 11, 2006
In this lesson, you’ll develop the initial framework of the site structure by developing placeholders for the pages in the Yoga Sangha project site. You’ll link these pages together using Dreamweaver’s visual site-mapping tools to create a working test site. Creating this kind of framework through pages and links in a bare but functional version of the site can help you test the navigation that you have developed. Testing the proposed site structure before creating the design will help you catch fundamental problems at the beginning of development, enabling you to address them more efficiently.
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Build a Dynamic App Step-by-Step in Dreamweaver 8
Aug 4, 2006
By the end of this lesson, you’ll have an idea of how dynamic sites work, and what they are created to do; you’ll have Macromedia Dreamweaver configured to work with dynamic data; and you’ll have created your first page that uses dynamic content.
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Creating a Local Site in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
May 4, 2006
Macromedia Dreamweaver enables you to develop and deploy your Web sites according to development best practices. As with any programming paradigm, it is recommended that you develop files in an environment separate from which a user can access. This enables developers to make changes to a site without any downtime and allows full testing prior to deploying new files. This chapter will help you work on a web page in a local environment.
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Building Your First Page in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
Mar 24, 2006
After you've set up your local site, you can begin filling the site with pages. To do that, you'll need to create a page, give it a title, add some content to the page, and save it. To check your work, you should view the page in one or more Web browsers before you upload it to your Web server. Luckily, Dreamweaver makes it easy to view your work in different browsers. This chapter will help you get started building your website in Dreamweaver.
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How to Build Applications in Dreamweaver
Jan 20, 2006
Whether you're totally new to Dreamweaver or just creating dynamic Web applications with the program, this chapter will help you find your bearings. The first part explores the Dreamweaver workspace with an emphasis on its application-building capabilities. The rest of the chapter deals specifically with the basics of Web application tools that are standard in Dreamweaver. Everything from applying server behaviors to working in Live Data view is described.
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Customize Dreamweaver Using Extensions
Jan 6, 2006
As a Web developer, you might want to write an extension for Dreamweaver to handle a commonly used, and therefore repetitive, task. Or, you might have a unique requirement that you can satisfy only by writing an extension for the specific situation. In both cases, Dreamweaver provides an extensive set of tools that you can use to add to or to customize its functionality. This sample chapter discusses a number of ways you can extend Dreamweaver to suit your Web development needs.