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Adobe, Help Me (if you can)

June 27, 2011
Adobe Helpless

How to open Adobe Help in your Browser Like the Beatles, "I'm feelin' down…" And this tweet from John Olson pretty much sums it up. I dont think I can be anymore clear on how much I hate the Adobe help system. Adobe Community Help app BLOWS! Give me html help back plz June 16, [...]

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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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12-Step Program for CSS’oholics

August 4, 2010

Hi, my name is Jim and I’m a CSS’oholic. I remember my first floated div. It was heaven. Soon I escalated to CSS rollovers buttons and list-based menus. I was on top of the world! And then, the downward spiral began. Before I realized what was happening, I found myself watching the sun come up [...]

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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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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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Stopping Untitled Documents Take 2

December 9, 2009

I feel a bit stupid. In my recent Stop “Untitled Document” in Dreamweaver post I reported what I thought was a very clever way to find pages titled "Untitled Document" using Dreamweaver's search function. It turns out there's a built-in function that will will do the job: Select menu: Site>Reports… In the reports dialog: Leave Current [...]

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Open Browser Window and Bring to Front

July 23, 2009

One Dreamweaver feature that been around for a while is the Open Browser Window (OBW for short) behavior. Described simply, the behavior is a JavaScript that opens a page in a new window while at the same time specifying the size, attributes (scrollbars, resize handles. etc.) and name of the window. Once a window is [...]

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