Dreamweaver Tips

Recovering Dreamweaver Site Definitions on Windows

December 4, 2010

Unfortunately, Dreamweaver occasionally loses all of its site definitions. It's a rare occurrence but that's no consolation when it happens to you. A while back I published Recovering Lost Site Definitions which (naturally enough) explained how to recover lost site definitions on a Mac. It's simply a matter of restoring the appropriate file: Dreamweaver CS5 [...]

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Dreamweaver Template Tips

October 17, 2010

Templates (.dwt files) add important and powerful functionality to Dreamweaver by allowing you to: Quickly create multiple pages sharing a common layout. Easily update multiple pages based upon a template by editing the template. Unfortunately, novice users often fail to implement templates correctly causing themselves a lot of frustration and extra work rather than saving [...]

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Center a CSS web page layout

October 12, 2010

How to center a web page layout in Dreamweaver (or any other web design program): Duration 2:40 Click for step-by-step directions to Center an HTML Page Layout…

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Organizing your site's files and folders

August 8, 2010

skb875 of PixelForLife Video Tuts recently suggested on Twitter that I write an article about how to organize website files and folders. I suspect he asked not because he doesn’t know how to organize a site (after all the basics are pretty simple – arrange things so you can find them later) but because – [...]

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Deleting the font (and other) tags from existing pages

June 13, 2010

Last year I wrote that it is still possible (although not recommended) to use the deprecated <font> tag in Dreamweaver CS4. I recently got an email in response to that post asking how to remove the font tag from existing, older documents using CS4. The writer noted that it was relatively easy in CS3 "all [...]

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The Ten Commandments for Editing Dreamweaver’s Spry Menubars

April 21, 2010

See also: Creating and Customizing Horizontal Spry Menu Bars and Creating and Customizing Vertical Spry Menu Bars Adapted from my Dominate Dreamweaver online training course. Back in the day, the Hebrews had a habit of getting themselves into trouble in spite of their favored status with God. So he decided to try to make it [...]

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Linking to a specific item on a page

January 25, 2010

When you've been creating web pages as long as I have, it's easy to start thinking you're hot stuff. Then along comes some perfectly obvious little html shortcut that you've been overlooking for a decade. It tends to humble you pretty quickly! And judging by the response at the DreamweaverClub.com forum, I wasn't the only [...]

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