Before the world can see your Web site, you have to publish it on the world wide web. Although you can run your own web server, most people sign up with a web hosting service. Essentially, you rent server space from a web host for a monthly or annual fee, ranging from as little as […]
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Domain registration and hosting are two separate services. Many companies offer both, but they are completely different services. Here’s a metaphor that may help you understand the difference (it confuses a lot of people): Think of a hosting company like an apartment you rent, a place where your web site can live. Think of the […]
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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, […]
Read More browsers, cms, dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, web design, web hosting, wordpressAs 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 […]
Read More cms, dwcs5, dwcs6, web hosting, wordpressIf 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 […]
Read More cms, dwcs5, dwcs6, web hosting, wordpressJanine, I am at my wits end. It seems like such a simple problem, but I cannot get it to work. When I found your Dreamweaver tutorial I thought it was very easy to understand and thought I would get my problem resolved, but that was not the case. In your “Connecting an HTML form […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, ecommerce, forms, web hostingHi Janine, I am reading your new book Dreamweaver For Dummies and saw in your book that you discuss WordPress and CS5. I purchased CS5 to work with WordPress and have yet to successfully get it working with my various WordPress installations. I am not a real developer and would prefer to not create a local test […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, web hosting, wordpressHi Janine, Thank you for the interesting book. I am busy learning how to design a business website and I would like to collect info on the people ordering on my website. How would I do so, bearing in mind that I am a beginner to websites and computers in general? Many thanks, Shamen Hi […]
Read More dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, ecommerce, web hostingHi Janine, I read your Dreamweaver book but didn’t find anything about adding a search engine to my website. Can you direct me to make this element in my website? Sincerely Hossein from Norway Greetings Hossein, Creating your own search feature in Dreamweaver is very complex and generally not worth the effort because there are […]
Read More dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, SEO, web hosting, wordpressSetting up a basic WordPress blog these days is easy, but as you add more posts, how do you back it all up so you don’t lose everything you’ve created? Like most things on the Web, there are multiple options, and they come with varying levels of complexity and cost. Backup Buddy: According to a […]
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