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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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Creative Suite: Upgrade, Wait for Creative Cloud or ???

November 22, 2011
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 Important Note: Adobe has announced a revised Creative Suite CS6 upgrade policy which includes owners CS3 and CS4. I'll revise these recommendations as soon as I"ve had the opportunity to fully consider the new policy. This article is part of an ongoing series about Adobe Creative Cloud. The recommendations Here’s a summary of my recommendations along [...]

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Dreamweaver versus WordPress: Which should you choose?

November 4, 2011
Dreamweaver versus Wordpress

Cartoon © TOONrefugee.com OK, I should admit up front that I'm not really going to answer that question because there is no simple, one-size-fits-all answer. But I do get a lot of questions from people who look at Dreamweaver and WordPress as competitors (I don't). So I thought I'd share parts of an email I [...]

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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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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. If you enjoyed the information in this article, you may be interested in Dominate [...]

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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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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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