Good question. Dreamweaver includes the Alt text field when you insert images, but it has no easy way to add the title attribute, and that’s what you need if you want the text to appear when you roll a cursor over an image in IE. Here’s an example of what it looks like: <img src=”photo.jpg” [...]

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Hello Janine, I read your Dreamweaver book but didn’t find anything about adding a search engine to my website. Can you direct me to make this element in my website? Sincerely Hossein from Norway Greetings Hossein, Creating your own search feature in Dreamweaver is very complex and generally not worth the effort because there are [...]

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Hi, Janine, I am a registered user of Total Training and have been emulating your tutorial on Dreamweaver CS4 through Lesson Two, Chapter Eight. I have created all of the files and links as they were done in the tutorial, except that Index.html appears at the bottom of the Local Files list instead of at [...]

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Hi Janine, I have been reading one of your web design books and am interested in learning Dreamweaver but live in Cairns, Australia, where there is no training center available. First, is it possible to learn Dreamweaver (with no past training in web design) by using your videos? Second, if it IS possible, can it [...]

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Hey there Janine, I’m trying to add a Flash file to a template page, but I keep getting the error message “Making this change would alter a region that is locked by a template or translator. The change will be discarded.” Do you know what I’m doing wrong? Thanks, Kate, You’re not doing anything wrong. [...]

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Hi Janine, I wonder if you could help me with the following: I’m new to building Web sites (I started 3 days ago!) and the problem I have is small but annoying. When defining rules for links, I am able to change the “hover” color but not the link color. When previewed in IExplorer, the [...]

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Janine, I have tried everything under the sun to get my site to look proper in IE on the PC. Every other browser looks fine, but in IE there is always a “gap” between the top div and the middle. The bottom looks fine. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Ronnie Hi Ronnie, Unfortunately, CSS [...]

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Why am I getting the error message: “To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has  restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer.” I created a tabbed panel on one of my pages. When I preview it in a browser, the page has this restriction message about scripts and [...]

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Hi Janine, Thanks for all your great work teaching Dreamweaver! I’m looking for the simplest way to develop a sitewide search engine in which the user types into a blank field and sitewide search results appear. Can this be done through any Spry widgets inside Dreamweaver? Thanks, Kendra Hi Kendra, One of the easiest ways [...]

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Hi Janine, I’m writing in part to tell you how much I’m enjoying your book, although I’m still very new to the concepts, the Dreamweaver program, and web-design in general. I’m also asking if you might have any recommendations on sources for Dreamweaver templates. I’ve downloaded a some from various Web sites, and I’ve found [...]

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