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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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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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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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 have been on your Digital Family website and also purchased two Dummies books, trying to gather all the information I can get on building a website for a beer wholesaler in PA. I have registered our company’s domain name at GoDaddy; that was easy. Next step is to get a host., GoDaddy [...]

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Dear Janine, 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 [...]

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Dear Janine, I am a new secretary at a new church and currently we do not have an office, so we are not connected to the Internet. I am looking at Dreamweaver so we are able to create our own web page but I am not sure how to then get the page up on [...]

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