This tutorial is designed to give you a head start on the many ways you can customize a drop-down menu in Dreamweaver. Since version CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver has included the Spry framework, which is a set of widgets you can use to create drop-down menus and other advanced features for your web pages. The Spry […]
Read MoreCreate a Drop-Down Menu with Spry Features in Dreamweaver
This tutorial shows you how to create a horizontal drop-down menu for site navigation using the Spry widget in Dreamweaver. The Spry framework is a set of widgets Adobe added in version CS3. This collection of tools makes it easier to add advanced features, including e drop-down menus and collapsible panels. These features are included […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6Add a Slider to your Web Pages with the jQuery PowerSlider in Dreamweaver
Seems all the cool sites have a big, rotating box at the top of the front page. If you want to showcase a few featured items in a rotating slider (the way I’ve done on the front page of this website), the PowerSlider is going to make your day — and you don’t even have […]
Read More dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, extensionsHow do you add Extensions to Dreamweaver from Adobe’s Exchange Site
By Janine Warner Even with all the cool features in Dreamweaver, there will almost certainly come a day when you want to do things that Dreamweaver can’t do with the features that shipped with the program. Fortunately, the programmers who created Dreamweaver made it possible for other programmers to add features using the Extension Manager. […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, extensionsHow can I add submenus to a standards-based vertical navigation bar?
Hi Janine, Could you please show me how to change a standards-based vertical navigation bar into a Spry menu bar? In other words, how to add submenus to a standards-based vertical navigation bar? Regards, Coddie PS: I’m working on a template. HTML Code: <ul> <li><a href=”#”>Item 1</a></li> <li><a href=”#”>Item 2</a></li> <li><a href=”#”>Item 3</a></li> <li><a href=”#”>Item […]
Read More css, dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, web designHow can I get a panel to reappear in Dreamweaver?
In trying to get to know Dreamweaver, I was moving the panels around. The Insert panel subsequently disappeared from the space on the right. Its contents seem to be strung across the top of the screen, but there is no Insert panel. When I click on Windows and check Insert, the contents across the top […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6Should I use lowercase or uppercase letters in a domain name?
When I send people my Web address (URL) or print it on my business cards, should I use all lowercase, or can I write it like I would in a sentence and use the caps? Answer: In any URL, caps are optional up to the .com part. Addresses are only case-sensitive after the .com (same […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, SEO, web design, web hosting, wordpressHow to fix broken images when using GoDaddy’s Preview DNS with WordPress?
Special thanks to Dale Ellis dale@ellismultimedia.com for this guest post. I hope it saves you the grief he suffered: I recently redesigned a site for a client with WordPress and hosted it on GoDaddy. Unlike a standard blog where we would be starting off from scratch, there was already an existing site, hosted on another service, with […]
Read More web hostingHow do you add text to an image so that the text appears when someone rolls a cursor over the image in a browser?
Good question. Dreamweaver includes the Alt text field when you insert images, but it has no easy way to add the title attribute, and that’s what you need if you want the text to appear when you roll a cursor over an image in IE. Here’s an example of what it looks like: <img src=”photo.jpg” […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, graphics, web designHow do you insert audio files into a web page and where can you host audio files online?
Many people who want to host audio on their sites are surprised that it’s harder than hosting video. If you’re not careful, audio inserted incorrectly won’t play at all in most web browsers, or worse, your audio file will play automatically and there is no way to turn it off. Worse still, multiple audio files playing simultaneously. […]
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