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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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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Good question. Dreamweaver includes the Alt text field when you insert images, but it has no easy way to add the title attribute, and that’s what you need if you want the text to appear when you roll a cursor over an image in IE. Here’s an example of what it looks like: <img src=”photo.jpg” [...]

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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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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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Hello Janine, I am working my way through my Dreamweaver CS3 Total Training lessons, and I am stuck on this one issue in Lesson 6, Topic 7. I do great up until I apply the style to float the Story div left. Once I apply that, my Sidebar content jumps out of the Sidebar div [...]

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Hi Janine, I got your Total Training for DW8 probably around 2007 and I really didn’t spend much time watching it. The only thing I did with DW was create part of a site for someone, using tables, before she finished it herself by using a simple program for non-designers, and for practice, I replicated [...]

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Hi Janine I have a question about FULLSCREEN WEBSITES in Dreamweaver CS4. How can I design my site so that no matter what size the browser window is, it will be filled entirely? I like that my website will look the same on all types of monitors. I have a SWF File in Dreamweaver. Shall [...]

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