Janine I just finished your Dreamweaver  For Dummies book. I found it to be right on the money. However, I have a question. I’m a photographer and graphic designer. I’m most comfortable working in Photoshop. Can I create all my pages in Photoshop and bring them into Dreamweaver as an image rather than create them from scratch? [...]

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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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Something tells me you’re not an idiot, but there are a few reasons that your new site may not be showing up. Here are a some things to check. 1. Make sure you uploaded your site to the right place. On many web servers, if you use the FTP info they send, you enter 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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Skype automatically highlights any phone numbers displayed in a web browser to make it easy to ‘click to call’ the numbers. Just because you see this formatting on your computer, doesn’t mean other people see it.  Skype formatting on phone numbers is specific to each person’s computer, not to the general formatting of a web [...]

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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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Janine, I just watched your class on E-Commerce on Kelby Training.  It was an excellent class for someone like me, but  I am experiencing a little difficulty in adding the Google checkout to my site. I have no problems adding the code for the items, but that 2nd piece of code that you said to [...]

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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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