I’ve watched your video (Total Training Dreamweaver CS3) and I’ve designed a new intranet site. This is my first time and I don’t know how to upload onto the server via local/network connection.

Please advise how I can go about.

Regards,
Freeman in
Papua New Guinea

Hi, Freeman,

You will need to ask your network administrator for this information as it depends on how your intranet system is set up. You will use the same site-management features but will select local/network connection and then enter your server information in the dialog.

I hope that helps and I wish you all the best,
Janine

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First I would like to say that I am enjoying your CD on Web2  –  very well done.  I have a little problem, though. Is there  something special that I have to do to get the program to read the Photoshop PSD pics?

Hope that you can help.

Regards,
Kay

Hi Kay,

Glad you like my video. Expression Web can’t read Photoshop PSD files because it is designed to read only the file formats that work on the web, which are JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs.

What you need to do is convert your images into one of these formats in Photoshop and then you can use the images in Expression Web.

To optimize an image for the web, which both gets it in the correct format and makes it download faster, choose File > Save For Web. Then select the image type and compression or color options you prefer. You’ll find some basic instructions in my training video for optimizing images for the web with this technique.

I hope that helps and I wish you all the best,

Janine

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Bet you’ve seen this question before: Which do you prefer, Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web? I’m a novice, not by any means at the PC computer, but at web site design. I was given Dreamweaver CS3 and PhotoShop Extended CS3 and bought your Total Training “essentials” tutorials for both.

Then I noticed the Microsoft  Expression video series at Total Training and now I wonder which you prefer. I enjoy your work. I am also reading an article of yours in Layers Magazine. You are a gifted woman. Keep up the fine efforts.

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thank you for your kind words. Whether you use Adobe Dreamweaver or Expression Web is very much a personal choice. They are similar programs (at least compared to Dreamweaver vs. Microsoft’s previous Web design program FrontPage) and both have much to offer.

Here are a few things to consider as you make your decision. Dreamweaver is a more mature program than Expression Web. It’s been around for many years, and is by far the top choice among professional Web designers. Dreamweaver has excellent  CSS support and includes features you won’t find in Expression Web, such as the Spry menu, which makes it easy to create drop-down menus and other AJAX features.

That said, Expression Web is a major improvement over FrontPage. Expression Web (now available in version 2) offers good CSS support, follows standards better than FrontPage ever did, and shows great promise.

If you generally prefer Microsoft products and/or work with a developer who uses Visual Studio to create ASP.NET, you may also find some advantages in compatibility with Expression Web.

Although in theory you could use both programs on the same site, I definitely recommend that if you are working with other people on a Web site that you all try to use the same program.

You can learn more about the strengths and weaknesses of different web design programs in my tutorial: “What’s the Best Web Design Program?”

As for my videos, I’ve created training programs for both. Follow these links to my video section and you’ll find videos on:

• Dreamweaver CS3 and CS4
• Ashort video to help GoLive users make the transition to Dreamweaver
• Videos on Expression Web and Expression Web 2
• And a short vidoe to help FrontPage users make the transition to Expression Web.

No matter what program you use, I wish you all the best and I’m pleased know that my videos and articles have been helpful to you,

Janine

I’m hoping you can help. I’ve been searching and searching for an answer to a problem I’ve run across, to no avail.

I am creating my website in Dreamweaver CS3 and I’ve run into a situation I can’t resolve. I have two images on a page that are supposed to link to different pages on the site. They seem to have become connected to each other somehow because when I change the link for one of the images, the link for the other image changes as well. I’m not using any sitewide link change options, just doing it manually.

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and I love your site!

Rachel

Hi Rachel,

I can suggest a couple of solutions to your problem. The simplest is to add some space or a return between the images. Remove the link and then reset each link separately. Once you have some space between them, Dreamweaver should recognize that they are separate links.

If that doesn’t work, you may need to fix the links manually in the code. Here’s a quick guide to how that would work:

The HTML for a link begins with the tag <a href=”link.html”> and then has </a> at the end. Image tags use <img src=”image.jpg”>. You may need to cut and paste the </a> tag so it appears between the two tags for the images instead of surrounding both of them to create one link.

Here’s an example of how yours might look now:

<a href=”link.html><img src=”image1.jpg”><img src=”image2.jpg”></a>

You would need to cut and paste the </a> so the images are separated like this:

<a href=”link.html><img src=”image1.jpg”></a><img src=”image2.jpg”>

Of course, there may be other code that makes your pages a little more complex, but this is essentially what the code probably looks like and how you would fix it.

I hope that helps and I wish you all the best,
Janine

Hi Janine -

Thank you SO much for your speedy response. I took the plunge and looked at the actual code and was able to fix it. For some reason there was no <a href = linkimg.html> before the second image I was trying to create a link for. So I guess both images were referencing the same link.

I feel much more confident about working with the actual code now instead of doing it all visually, thanks to your clear instructions!

Thanks again.
Rachel

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Carol

Hi Carol,

There are a couple of ways to remove the colored border around an image you use as a link. The simplest option is to select the image, and then in the Property inspector at the bottom of the workspace, enter a 0 in the Border field.

You can also create a style for the image tag with the border set to none and remove all of the borders from all images at once.

I wish you all the best,
Janine

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