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 […]
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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. […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, web design, web hosting, wordpressHow do you create photo galleries in Dreamweaver?
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 […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, FlashWhy do my web pages look different in Internet Explorer than in other browsers?
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 […]
Read More browsers, css, dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6I’m having trouble uploading my site changes — why?
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 […]
Read More dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, ftp, web hostingHow do I create better URLs in my website?
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 […]
Read More dwcs5, dwcs6, web designWhere do I insert the Google Checkout shopping cart code?
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 […]
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