Posts in the Dreamweaver category

• Why I still use Dreamweaver despite all the cool kids using something else

  05 April 2013 by Clive Walker

  I’ve been meaning to write a blog post for some time about my web design and development workflow and the tools/software I use. So, this post is part of that and ‘in reply’ to many tweets I see every day (it seems) about other web development tools. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with a healthy marketplace of web design and development software, in fact I heartily support a wider choice. This post is not intended to be criticism of other software either. It’s just that I feel that Dreamweaver sometimes gets a bit of a ‘bad press’ or is perceived as not ‘cool’ – when, in my opinion, it’s still a great web development environment.

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• Understanding HTML and CSS code is a good thing

  15 December 2008 by Clive Walker

  When I was doing some Dreamweaver tuition recently, I was asked about implementing a CSS dropdown menu. I recommended this excellent CSS Menu from Craig Erskine which is itself a derivation of the original Suckerfish Dropdown menus on A list Apart.

• Creating specific page styles with CSS

  31 October 2007 by Clive Walker

  Yesterday, I was asked if it was possible to create individual page styles using CSS. In this case, the same style sheet would be used but there would be a specific style rule for page x compared with page y. For example, you may want to have a different background image for your home page compared to your ‘product’ pages. Perhaps the home page has a ‘blue theme’ and the product pages are ‘color coded’ with a different colour…

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• Building a tabbed menu with Adobe Spry in Dreamweaver

  03 July 2007 by Clive Walker

  When you have a lot of text content on a webpage, it's tempting to split it up into multiple pages. However, on some occasions (for example, a FAQs page), it may be better to use a single page but show/hide various sections of the content using JavaScript (of course, always making sure that content is accessible to users with JavaScript turned off).

• Valid (X)HTML, Dreamweaver and unencoded ampersands

  04 August 2006 by Clive Walker

  One of the reasons why a webpage might not pass the W3C markup validation test is unencoded ampersands in the link URLs. This can often happen with links provided by affiliate schemes. You copy and paste the link code into your valid (X)HTML page and, lo and behold, the page no longer validates. Well, Dreamweaver can help.

• Dreamweaver for PHP/MySQL applications

  29 January 2005 by Clive Walker

  Macromedia Dreamweaver is used by many people to edit their standard HTML websites but it can also be used to develop PHP websites where information is pulled from a MySQL database….