I’m having trouble with CSS and Divs

Posted by Janine Warner - August 25, 2012 - CSS, CSS, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, FAQ, Tutorials

Hello Janine, I am stuck on an issue with CSS and Div tags. I do great up until I apply the style to float the a div to the left of my story. Once I apply that, my Sidebar content jumps out of the Sidebar div and is in the Story div. I’ve been spinning […]

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How can I add submenus to a standards-based vertical navigation bar?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 25, 2012 - CSS, Dreamweaver, FAQ

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 […]

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How can I get a panel to reappear in Dreamweaver?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 25, 2012 - Browsers, Dreamweaver, FAQ

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 […]

How do you add text to an image so that the text appears when someone rolls a cursor over the image in a browser?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 25, 2012 - Dreamweaver, FAQ, Graphics

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” […]

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How do you insert audio files into a web page and where can you host audio files online?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 25, 2012 - Dreamweaver, FAQ, Video, Web Design, Web Hosting, WordPress

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. […]

How do you create photo galleries in Dreamweaver?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 17, 2012 - Dreamweaver, FAQ, Graphics

The answer to how to create a gallery in a web page in Dreamweaver isn’t as simple as you might expect. There were some automated tools for creating galleries in previous versions of Dreamweaver, but they had limited options and used an old version of Flash. Those features were cut from the program a couple of […]

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Why do my web pages look different in Internet Explorer than in other browsers?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 17, 2012 - Browsers, Dreamweaver, FAQ, Web Design

Unfortunately, different web browsers display text and HTML differently, and Internet Explorer is one of the worst, and most notorious, for bad code display (especially older versions of IE). What most web designers do is test their pages in a variety of web browsers to work to make sure their pages look ‘good enough’ in […]

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I’m having trouble uploading my site changes — why?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 17, 2012 - Browsers, Dreamweaver, Web Design, Web Hosting

Hello, I wonder if you can help me, I’ve been using my website for 10 years without any problems until a couple of weeks ago when I went to upload the site after knocking an item off. Instead of just synchronizing the 2 pages I’d changed, it tried to re-synchronize the whole site and got […]

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How do I create better URLs in my website?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 17, 2012 - Dreamweaver, FAQ, Web Design

Dear Janine, While adding pages to my site, I have been organizing them via subfolders locally on my hard drive. This results in web pages URL’s appearing long and messy. Is there a way to enter a tag, style, or code to change the display URL on my website? Thank you for your time, Mike […]

Where do I insert the Google Checkout shopping cart code?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 17, 2012 - Browsers, Dreamweaver, ecommerce, FAQ, Web Design

Janine, I just watched your class on E-Commerce on Kelby Training. It was an excellent class for someone like me, but I am experiencing a little difficulty in adding the Google checkout to my site. I have no problems adding the code for the items, but that 2nd piece of code that you said to […]