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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One of the things that makes it hard to ‘get’ the hierarchy or specificity of CSS that was written by someone else is that there are so many different ways to write CSS. I sometimes compare it to the art of writing prose. Not everyone who has learned to spell and understands the basics of grammar, can [...]

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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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Domain registration and hosting are two separate services. Many companies offer both, but they are completely different services. Here’s a metaphor that may help you understand the difference — it confuses a lot of people. Think of a hosting company like an apartment you rent, a place where your web site can live. Think of [...]

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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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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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