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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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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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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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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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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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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Special thanks to Dale Ellis dale@ellismultimedia.com for this guest post. I hope it saves you the grief he suffered: I recently redesigned a site for a client with WordPress and hosted it on GoDaddy. Unlike a standard blog where we would be starting off from scratch, there was already an existing site, hosted on another service, [...]

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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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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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Hello Janine, I’m a capable freelance print designer starting to learn Dreamweaver. One of the first real-world tasks I have set out to master is creating an email message. I loved your article in the current issue of LAYERS but have had issues inserting images. I have looked on the Adobe boards for similar problems [...]

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