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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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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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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Hey there Janine, I’m trying to add a Flash file to a template page, but I keep getting the error message “Making this change would alter a region that is locked by a template or translator. The change will be discarded.” Do you know what I’m doing wrong? Thanks, Kate, You’re not doing anything wrong. [...]

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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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Why am I getting the error message: “To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has  restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer.” I created a tabbed panel on one of my pages. When I preview it in a browser, the page has this restriction message about scripts and [...]

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Hi Janine, Thanks for all your great work teaching Dreamweaver! I’m looking for the simplest way to develop a sitewide search engine in which the user types into a blank field and sitewide search results appear. Can this be done through any Spry widgets inside Dreamweaver? Thanks, Kendra Hi Kendra, One of the easiest ways [...]

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Hi Janine, I’m writing in part to tell you how much I’m enjoying your book, although I’m still very new to the concepts, the Dreamweaver program, and web-design in general. I’m also asking if you might have any recommendations on sources for Dreamweaver templates. I’ve downloaded a some from various Web sites, and I’ve found [...]

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Hello I’m hoping you might be able to help me again. I’m working on a dynamic Web Template and everything is going well. Everything on the page is static. I have several editable regions either in a layer or a div. There is a footer at the bottom of the page in another div. I [...]

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