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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Many people who want to host audio on their sites are surprised that it’s harder than hosting video. In some cases, not using a player or inserting audio well, can lead to audio files playing simultaneously. Not good. The challenge with audio files is similar to the challenge with video, and you’d think audio would be [...]

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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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When I send people my Web address (URL) or print it on my business cards, should I use all lowercase, or can I write it like I would in a sentence and use the caps? Answer: In any URL, caps are optional up to the .com part. Addresses are only case-sensitive after the .com (same [...]

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In trying to get to know Dreamweaver, I was moving the panels around. The Insert panel subsequently disappeared from the space on the right. Its contents seem to be strung across the top of the screen, but there is no Insert panel. When I click on Windows and check Insert, the contents across the top [...]

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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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Hello, I wonder if you can help me. I’ve been using my website for 10 years without any problems until a couple of weeks ago when I went to upload the site after knocking an item off. Instead of just synchronizing the two pages I’d changed, it tried to re-synchronize the whole site and got [...]

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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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