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SEO: 13 Tips to Make Your Dreamweaver Site More Search Engine Friendly

Posted by Janine Warner - September 7, 2012 - edit, Social Media, Tutorials

The best way to make your site search engine friendly is to design your site so that it’s easy for search engines to ‘read’ your pages. That means doing things like adding alternative text behind your images and using the Meta description tag. In this tutorial, you’ll find a few Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips […]

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Comparing Templates & Themes for Dreamweaver, WordPress, Joomla, Flash, and more

Posted by Janine Warner - September 5, 2012 - Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, edit, Tutorials

Using templates in web design is a great way to save time on your page designs — and there are a gazillian templates you can download from the Web. But before you learn how to edit web sites with templates or themes, it’s helpful to understand the big picture: What are templates best used for, […]

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How do you Add Extensions to Dreamweaver from Adobe’s Exchange Site

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, edit, Tutorials

Even with all the cool features in Dreamweaver, there will almost certainly come a day when you want to do things that Dreamweaver can’t do with the features that shipped with the program. Fortunately, the programmers who created Dreamweaver made it possible for other programmers to add features using the Extension Manager. The result? You […]

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Where to learn more advanced CSS Techniques

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - CSS, CSS, edit, Tutorials

Check out these online resources for advanced CSS tutorials, tips, and validators. You won’t find much (if any) help with Dreamweaver at these sites, but you’ll find everything you could ever want to know about CSS, browser differences, hacks, and workarounds. The Dreamweaver Developer Center at Adobe.com Because CSS is so complex, Adobe has launched a […]

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How to Add Background Images to Web Pages Using Cascading Style Sheets

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - CSS, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, edit, Tutorials

Including background images in your web pages is a great way to add depth, color, and texture to your designs. You can use backgrounds in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to add decorative elements, such as textured backgrounds, gradients, and borders. Using background images in multiple parts of the page makes it possible to create rich, […]

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Editing CSS Layouts in Dreamweaver CS3 and CS4

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - CSS, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, edit, Tutorials

Note: The CSS layouts in this tutorial are specific to version CS3 and CS4. Previous versions of Dreamweaver, including versions MX 2004 and 8, did not include the CSS Layouts featured in this column. This tutorial shows how to edit the CSS layouts in Dreamweaver CS5 and later versions. Whether you’re new to CSS, or […]

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Comparing CSS Selectors in Dreamweaver 8 and CS3

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - CSS, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, edit, Tutorials

What’s the best Selector: Class, Tag, or Advanced? Even if you’ve been working with CSS for a while, understanding (and remembering) the differences among the various types of style selectors can be a challenge. As you can see in this screenshot of Dreamweaver’s New CSS Rule dialog, the first thing you need to do is […]

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Designing with CSS: The advantages of Cascading Style Sheets

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - CSS, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, edit, Tutorials

The concept of creating styles has been around since long before the Web. Desktop publishing programs (such as Adobe InDesign) and even word processing programs (such as Microsoft Word) have long used styles to manage the formatting and editing of text on printed pages. When using styles in a word processor, you can create and […]

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How to use site setup to start a new website in Dreamweaver CS3 or CS4

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, edit

Before you create a new website or start redesigning an old one, it’s important to first define your main root folder. This is also an important first step if you’re creating your site from a Dreamweaver Template. Defining the main folder for your website is crucial because it enables Dreamweaver to keep track of all […]

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How to set up a local web server to edit WordPress on your computer

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - CMS, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, edit, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

As promised, here are step-by-step instructions for setting up your computer as a Web server so that you can run — and edit — WordPress themes on your local computer. Note: Only Dreamweaver CS5 and later versions support the multiple levels of include files needed to display WordPress themes. These instructions can also be used to set […]

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