The advantages of a dynamic website, such as WordPress

Posted by Janine Warner - March 10, 2015 - CMS, Dreamweaver, Tutorials, WordPress

When you create a dynamic website site with a program like WordPress, all of your content is stored in a database and pages are generated as they are requested by the server. If you’ve built your website with a program like Dreamweaver, GoLive, or FrontPage, you’ve probably built a ‘static site,’ meaning every page in the […]

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How to Test a Website in Different Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome

Posted by Janine Warner - September 13, 2012 - CMS, CSS, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, Feature-Front, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

It’s a shocking scenario: You create a page design that looks just perfect in your favorite web browser on your own computer. You publish it on the Internet and tell all your friends. And the next thing you know, your cousin in Iowa and your friends in Brazil are telling you that it looks terrible, […]

How creating a blog is like buying a prefabricated house

Posted by Janine Warner - September 7, 2012 - CMS, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

The advantage of a blog is that you can start your blog site with all the dynamic functionality prebuilt for you. Seemingly all you have to do with most blog programs (including Blogger, WordPress and Typepad) is set up an account, and then add your own words and pictures. Most people find blogging as easy […]

How to set up a local web server to edit WordPress on your computer

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - CMS, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, edit, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

As promised, here are step-by-step instructions for setting up your computer as a Web server so that you can run — and edit — WordPress themes on your local computer. Note: Only Dreamweaver CS5 and later versions support the multiple levels of include files needed to display WordPress themes. These instructions can also be used to set […]

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Why you need a web server to run WordPress or any other CMS

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - CMS, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, Tutorials, WordPress

If you’ve ever tried to view or edit a template for a WordPress blog, Joomla site, or other dynamic technology in a program like Adobe Dreamweaver, you probably didn’t get what you were hoping for — unless you set up your computer as a Web server. One of the biggest challenges when it comes to […]

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What are the advantages (and challenges) of using a blog, content managment system (CMS), or other dynamic database-driven site?

Posted by Janine Warner - August 26, 2012 - Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

The advantages (and challenges) of a content managment system, dynamic site, or blog with a database When you store all of your goodies (the photos, posts, and such) that you display on your web pages in a database, you gain the ability to create web pages dynamically — as they are served to the visitor […]

Can you create dynamic Web sites in Dreamweaver without ColdFusion?

Posted by Janine Warner - July 14, 2012 - Dreamweaver, FAQ

Dear Janine, Please offer your recommendations for creating dynamic websites for those of us without ColdFusion. I have CS3 Master Suite. Thanks for a terrific job on the Dreamweaver DVDs. Tom Hi Tom, I completely understand if you don’t want to use ColdFusion. PHP and ASP.NET are more popular options, but many people teach the […]