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, wordpressGood 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 designMany 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, wordpressKnowing how many people are visiting your website, where they come from, and what they do when they visit your pages is key to the success of any business or service on the web. Here are three traffic reporting services you can easily add to the pages of any web site to get detailed traffic […]
Read More css, dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, ecommerce, web design, web hosting, wordpressThe address for your Web site is called its domain name, or URL. It’s what visitors type into a web browser to find your Web site. When you register a domain name, you create an address for yourself on the World Wide Web. For example, this Web site has the domain name DigitalFamily.com. The www part of any […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, web design, web hosting, wordpressDreamweaver CS6 provides much better support for WordPress than any previous versions, but you’ll still have to set up a local testing environment if you want WordPress files to work on your local computer the way they work on your server. How does Dreamweaver work with WordPress? You can create a completely custom dynamic site […]
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Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, ecommerceInstead of hosting your video on your own web server, an increasingly popular alternative is to upload video files to YouTube, Vimeo, or another video hosting site and then include special code from that site in the HTML code of your web pages. The video plays within your pages, even though it’s not hosted on […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, video, web designDreamweaver makes it easy to design web pages without ever having to look at the HTML code behind the scenes. But even though you don’t have to learn HTML, every once in a while knowing how to work with in Dreamweaver’s Code View can come in handy. In this tutorial, you’ll find instructions for using […]
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