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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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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Hi Janine, I am reading your new book Dreamweaver For Dummies and saw in your book that you discuss WordPress and CS5. I purchased CS5 to work with WordPress and have yet to successfully get it working with my various WordPress installations. I am not a real developer and would prefer to not create a [...]

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Hello Janine, I have a couple of questions regarding instructions you gave on your recent training video thru Kelby Training. First, I am on a Mac and would like to know what to name my web URL in the server setup. You indicate Localhost for Windows. Is it the same for Mac? Second, is the [...]

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Hi Janine, I’ve been creating posts in Dreamweaver and then copying and pasting them into WordPress.  I love being able to use Dreamweaver’s more sophisticated editor, but WordPress keeps deleting my paragraph and break tags. Is there a way to prevent WordPress from stripping out my line breaks? It’s making me crazy. . . Jeff [...]

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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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Hi Janine, Thank you for your tutorials. They were very useful and easy to practice. It really helped me to learn web design by myself. As for me, I am a freelance graphic designer. I have been working for so long in the design area. Currently, I am focusing more on web design as I [...]

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Janine, I purchased the entire Studio 8 suite that was included with the Adobe CS2 Web Bundle a few years ago and have just recently begun learning Dreamweaver 8 by using your entry-level Total Training DVDs. First off, THANK YOU for such wonderful, clear, and precise instruction! It has made all the difference between gearing [...]

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