Tutorials

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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Using Photoshop Smart Objects in Dreamweaver

January 11, 2011

Duration 6 minutes I recently asked for suggestions for videos and tutorials and Jim McKibben asked “how to effectively use Dreamweaver with Adobie Creative Suite?” That’s a pretty broad subject, but I thought I’d start by demonstrating how you can integrate Photoshop Smart Objects into your Dreamweaver workflow. I hope you’ll find the video helpful. [...]

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Highlight the Current Page in a Spry Menu with CSS

January 9, 2011

duration: 7:38 How to use CSS to highlight the link to the current page in your menus (including Spry menubars). As an example, the "Home" link will be highlighted on the Home page, the "Contact" link on the contact page, etc.  

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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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CSS Positioning Tutorial

October 4, 2010

The use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position html objects in a webpage is one of the most powerful tools available to web designers and developers. It forms the core of all modern, standards-based web design. Unfortunately, it can also be the most difficult tool for designers to grasp. That's why I developed an [...]

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CSS3 Text-Based Jelly Buttons

September 21, 2010

The CSS3 and HTML5 standards which are slowly working their way towards completion are generating a lot of excitement among web designers and developers. The most recent update to Dreamweaver CS5 incorporates code hinting for CSS3 but you don't need DW CS5 to create these buttons and, in any case, you'll still have to get [...]

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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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