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Using Google Fonts with Dreamweaver

February 2, 2012
Google Fonts

Since the dawn of the web, designers have been frustrated by the lack of font choices. There were work-arounds, such as using images rather than html text or font replacement scripts such as sIFR or Cufón for display fonts. But they weren’t very satisfactory. Today, a number of solutions exist including Google Fonts, Typekit (recently [...]

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Web Images and Photoshop Smart Objects in Dreamweaver

November 21, 2011

I've had a number of questions about web images and Dreamweaver recently so I thought I would share this video from my Dominate Dreamweaver Course. Inserting Photoshop Smart Objects into web pages with Dreamweaver and using the Image Preview dialog to explore the JPEG, GIF and PNG image formats and the related options. Duration 17:12 [...]

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Mobile-friendly web pages with Dreamweaver CS5.5

August 11, 2011
Dreamweaver Multiscreen Layout

Lately I've been working the CSS3 media queries in order to provide a better user experience for folks viewing my sites on mobile devices. My first effort was a Free Dreamweaver Multiscreen Template and I've followed that up with Creating a mobile-friendly web page with Dreamweaver CS5.5 which was just posted at DreamweaverClub.com. I hope you'll [...]

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Adding a Colorbox jQuery slideshow in Dreamweaver

March 20, 2011

Click logo above to play video… Clarifications: 1. Colorbox may not preview correctly in Live View in some versions of Dreamweaver. In that case use Preview in Browser instead. It should dispaly correctly in all browsers. 2. Colorbox comes with five example files which demonstrate various appearance settings. In step 2 below, choose the example [...]

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Creating an Image Gallery Using Spry Tabbed Panels

January 19, 2011

Duration 7 minutes Dreamweaver has a number of built-in Spry widgets that allow you to create pop-out menus, sortable lists and a variety of other interactive features. In this video from Module 7 of my online Dominate Dreamweaver course, I demonstrate how Spry Tabbed Panels can be used to create an interactive image gallery. Spry [...]

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CSS Inspect and browser functionality in Dreamweaver CS5

January 16, 2011

I encourage my students to update to the latest version of Dreamweaver but I also realize that financial issues involved. That's why I've worked hard to make sure that my Dominate Dreamweaver online training course supports Dreamweaver versions CS3, CS4 and CS5. It's also why I like to post about the new features offered by [...]

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Highlighting the current page in a Spry menubar on a template-based page

January 12, 2011

Duration: 7 minutes Here's a follow up to my earlier post about highlighting the current page in a Spry menubar. In this video you'll learn a technique which will allow you to perform the same trick on a menubar which is locked by a template. In the process you'll learn to use the powerful but [...]

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