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FireFox and the Webdings font

July 13, 2009

I recently receved this question from John via email: You stated that Webdings were part of the Microsoft Core set of fonts that are pretty safe to use for web design….Pat had been saying for awhile that her hearts were not working on her website … and I would go and check and they were [...]

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Recovering Lost Site Definitions

July 6, 2009

More Dreamweaver Recovery Tips: Recover Dreamweaver Template | Recover Dreamweaver Passwords Updated: Dreamweaver CS5 and Windows Site Definition Recovery info added. My iMac recently froze up and, when I – eventually – recovered from the forced shut down and restart, I discovered my Dreamweaver preferences had been reset to the default settings and, even worse, [...]

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Center an HTML Page Layout

June 18, 2009

Update: The directions here have been updated to accomodate absolutely positioned divs. Thanks to Dianne Lewandowski for pointing out the issue. You can also view my video on Centering a CSS web page layout… I thought I'd expand a bit on my answer to a question from Brandon85 on Twitter. He asked: Why is this so [...]

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My Site Won't Update

June 18, 2009

Another problem often experienced by Dreamweaver noobies is: I've updated my site in Dreamweaver and it looks fine when I preview it but after I upload it the changes don't show up on the site. Let's eliminate the easiest solution first. Did you refresh your browser window? When you view a page on the web, [...]

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Borders on Horizontal Spry Menus

May 27, 2009

Chris Tordesillas recently asked via the contact form how to: …make a simple horizontal spry menu where the sections are divided by a neat 1 pixel border all around.  My problem is when I place the border on the "ul.MenuBarHorizontal a" selector it places a 1 pixel border around each cell.  The end result is [...]

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Dreamweaver Workspaces

May 18, 2009

As Dreamweaver has matured it's become more than a tool for designers looking for a WSIWYG web tool. It's become a serious web development tool and is even getting the attention of (gasp!) hard core coders. In recognition of this trend, Adobe has added several new preset workspaces to Dreamweaver. The workspaces, which are accessed [...]

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Find and Replace

May 14, 2009

Recently on Twitter @fesworks asked about Dreamweaver's find and replace functionality (menu Edit>Find and Replace… or Control+F/Command+F). It's really quite extensive and, if you're serious about building websites, I recommend you explore it. Here's a quick rundown of  the functionality: F&R can work on unopened documents, so you don't even have to have a document [...]

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