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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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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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Using Dreamweaver CS5 Inspect to test Cascading Style Sheets

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

If you’ve faced the frustration of designing a web page in CSS only to find it doesn’t look right in some web browsers, or your styles seem to be conflicting with each other, you may be happy to discover the CSS Inspect feature, added to Dreamweaver CS5 and available in later versions as well. How […]

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Choosing the Best CSS Selector: Class, ID, Tag, or Compound

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - CSS, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, Tutorials, Web Design

When you create a new style in Dreamweaver using CSS features, you will need to choose which type of style you want to create and which ‘selector’ you want to use. Understanding (and remembering) the differences between the various types of style selectors can be a challenge. That’s why I created this short tutorial on […]

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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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Why you need a web server to run WordPress or any other CMS

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

If you’ve ever tried to view or edit a template for a WordPress blog, Joomla site, or other dynamic technology in a program like Adobe Dreamweaver, you probably didn’t get what you were hoping for — unless you set up your computer as a Web server. One of the biggest challenges when it comes to […]

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Dreamweaver CS5 and CS6 Provide Better Support for WordPress Themes, Joomla, and Drupal

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, WordPress

CS5 provides better support for include files and PHP You could edit WordPress files in previous versions of Dreamweaver, but version CS5 takes that support to a whole new level. Dreamweaver CS5 can handle multiple levels of include files, so you can use it to edit even the most complex themes, and it includes better PHP […]

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How to use the Widget Browser in Dreamweaver CS5 & CS6 to Add Slideshows, Drop-down Menus, & More

Posted by Janine Warner - September 3, 2012 - Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, Graphics, Tutorials

Adobe provides a marketplace where you can fine easy tools (some of them are even free) to add cool stuff like interactive slideshows to your website. You’ll find a growing list of widgets on the Adobe Exchange site that you can use to create slideshows, drop-down menus, and other Interactive features. The Widget browser makes it easy to […]

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Where to find fonts you can use on your website

Posted by Janine Warner - August 27, 2012 - CSS, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, Mobile Web Design, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

You have to have the legal rights to publish fonts on a server and there are a number of complexities to hosting fonts in all of the formats you’ll need for them to work in all of the different web browsers out there. For all those reasons, most web designers turn to a hosted font […]

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How to add fonts to a website with CSS3

Posted by Janine Warner - August 27, 2012 - CSS, Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver CS6, Mobile Web Design, Tutorials

Thanks to the latest advances in web browsers and CSS3, you can link almost any font to a web page. There are many ways to add fonts to your web pages today, but the simplest option is to use a font from one of the online collection websites. Follow this link to discover where you can […]

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