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Get Started with the New Site SetUp Process in Dreamweaver CS5
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Use the Widget Browser to add slideshows, drop-down menus, and other features to Dreamweaver CS5
Use Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 to edit a WordPress blog post or theme
Editing CSS Layouts in Dreamweaver CS5
New CSS Features in Dreamweaver CS5 make it easier to test and design with Cascading Style Sheets
Inserting code from Google AdSense, Flickr, YouTube, and other sites into Dreamweaver
Editing the HTML code in Dreamweaver
Test Your Web Pages in Adobe BrowserLab and other Web Browser Testing Services
New Language Support in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, and more...
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Tips for Blogging, WordPress & CMS Compare: What's the difference between a Web site and a blog?
WordPress 101: How do you create a WordPress blog?
Dreamweaver CS5 enhanced support for editing WordPress blogs or theme
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Testing Server: Set up a Web server to run WordPress, Joomla, or any CMS with Dreamweaver
Blogging Programs: Which is best: WordPress, TypePad, or Blogger?
CMS Review: What's the difference between WordPress, Joomla and Drupal and how do Content Management Systems Work?
Templates 101: Using templates in blogs and web sites
Why use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?
Customize a CSS Layout in Dreamweaver
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Align Images with CSS floats (CS3, CS4))
CSS selectors in Dreamweaver CS4 and CS5: When to use Class, ID, Tag, or Compound selectors
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Create a Navigation Bar with an Unordered List and CSS (CS3)
Compare Layout Options: Tables/Layers/AP Divs/CSS ( 8, CS3, MX)
Trick Out Your Site:Carts & Counters
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How to add or embed code from Google AdSense, Flickr, YouTube, and more using Dreamweaver
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Choosing a Content Management System (CMS): Comparing WordPress, Joomla, and Dupal
The GardensToTables.com web site was created using Joomla, which is great for magazine-style sites with many sections and subsections.
The Mobile Web Design Blog was created with WordPress, the increasingly popular blogging tool.
Here’s a quick look at a few of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) and why you might choose one over another. A good CMS can be used for something as simple as a blog or as complex as a newspaper or magazine Web site.
(Not quite sure how a CMS works with a database? Get the big picture here.)
Not only can using these programs help save you time, experimenting with them will help you learn from other programmers' experiences because as you see how they have created these tools, you’ll surely learn things that will help you if you decide what you might want to create your own custom site content management system.
WordPress
www.wordpress.org (note: wordpress.com is a free hosting service)
Price: Free / Open Source
Pros: One of the most popular and powerful blogging tools, WordPress is increasingly used as a CMS for more complex sites. You’ll find many great extensions for WordPress and it’s very easy to teach people to use the administrative tools to update the site after it’s built (even if they don’t know any HTML).
Cons: WordPress was designed for blogging and it’s great for that, but if you want to add more complex or advanced interactive features you’ll still probably have to do some custom programming yourself.
Additional Resources: Also has many, many extensions that you can use to easily add special features, including polls, discussion forums, and shopping carts.
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Joomla
www.Joomla.org
Price: Free / Open Source
Pros: Offers more features than WordPress, including the ability to easily create categories and sub categories for more magazine-style sites.
Cons: You’ll need some programming skills and advanced HTML/CSS knowledge to fully customize a Joomla site.
Additional Resources: Also has many, many extensions that you can use to easily add special features, including polls, discussion forums, and shopping carts.
Drupal
http://drupal.org/
Price: Free / Open Source
Pros: Designed by programmers for programmers this CMS is popular among the most technical fans of Open Source. If you have the programming skills, you can do just about anything with Drupal.
Cons: If you’re a designer, the learning curve on Drupal is a bit steeper than Joomla and you won’t find nearly as many templates.
Additional Resources: Many extensions that you can use to easily add special features, including polls, discussion forums, and shopping carts.
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