Hi Janine, I’m one of your students. Thank you for your very helpful online courses. I am writing to ask your opinion. I am a graphic designer and illustrator. I am putting together my own  website and would like to show samples of my work. My thought is to have a table of 15 thumbnails and a large [...]

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Hi Janine, I created a drop down menu with Dreamweaver CS3 ( I am waiting to upgrade soon. ) Your directions were great. When I F12 the page to preview it, it looks awesome! However, when I upload the page, does not look the way it should or function at all. I have searched the [...]

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I strongly recommend Appearance (CSS). That option will cause Dreamweaver to create CSS styles that correspond to the Page Properties settings, which is the recommended way to define page properties today. To see how this works, create a new blank page, set the page properties with the CSS option selected, and then you can study [...]

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One of the things that makes it hard to ‘get’ the hierarchy or specificity of CSS that was written by someone else is that there are so many different ways to write CSS. I sometimes compare it to the art of writing prose. Not everyone who has learned to spell and understands the basics of grammar, can [...]

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Hello Janine, I have watched all of your Dreamweaver and CSS training videos numerous times and worked all of the projects, and I am getting the hang of css styles and rules, etc. However, I have noticed that the pre-made CSS templates in Dreamweaver have <style> in the CSS panel, which I presume is an [...]

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Dear Janine, While adding pages to my site, I have been organizing them via subfolders locally on my hard drive. This results in web pages URL’s appearing long and messy. Is there a way to enter a tag, style, or code to change the display URL on my website? Thank you for your time,   Mike  [...]

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Unfortunately, different web browsers display text and HTML differently, and Internet Explorer is one of the worst, and most notorious, for bad code display. What most web designers do is test their pages in a variety of web browsers and work to make sure their pages look ‘good enough’ in all of them. Because the [...]

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The answer to how to create a gallery in a web page in Dreamweaver isn’t as simple as you might expect. There were some automated tools for creating galleries in previous versions of Dreamweaver, but they had limited options and used an old version of Flash. Those features were cut from the program a couple of [...]

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Hello Janine, I am working my way through my Dreamweaver CS3 Total Training lessons, and I am stuck on this one issue in Lesson 6, Topic 7. I do great up until I apply the style to float the Story div left. Once I apply that, my Sidebar content jumps out of the Sidebar div [...]

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Hi Janine I have recently upgraded to CS5 from CS3, and have also upgraded to your CS5 Dummies book. In CS3 I frequently used Insert Media Flash button, but it doesn’t seem to be there in CS5, nor can I find any reference in your book. Has this function been moved, or has it been [...]

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