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Category Archives: Dreamweaver

Useful links: accessibility mistakes, WAVE in Dreamweaver, countdown to mobile, Gartner predictions, ePub for Web Designers

Common Accessibility Mistakes at Visual Twenty-Eight is a good checklist of things to make sure you aren’t doing.
WAVE Dreamweaver Extension is just out from WebAIM. It’s in beta, and there are some limitations at the moment. Now you can get a WAVE report on your page right in Dreamweaver. Super!
Gartner forecast
The road to 2013: [...]

What’s hot on eHow

Here are my hottest sellers  on eHow in the past month.

How to Videos & Articles: eHow.com

How to Create a Hard-to-Crack Password
How to Use Dreamweaver CS3 Spry Accordion Panels
How to Add Flickr Images to a Web Page
How to Make a Free Website With Freewebs
How to Use Opera’s Mini Simulator to See Your Website on a Mobile [...]

Best of the Year on Web Teacher

What were the best sellers for Web Teacher this year? Here’s are the greatest hits for 2009.

The runaway favorite was Tip: Styling a fieldset with CSS. This post left the rest of the pack in the dust.
The Best Job in the World: Going Viral came in second with a lot of help from StumbleUpon.
Review: The [...]

The optgroup in HTML select forms in Dreamweaver

I recently showed how to use optgroup in HTML select forms. Those instructions were for hand coders. Today’s instructions show you how to make a small select form with optgroups in Dreamweaver. This is what the finished form element looks like in the browser.

Here’s how you do it if you use Dreamweaver. The following screen [...]

Useful Links: Multitasking and Media, a persistent Internet, Dreamweaver tip, community building

Nick Bilton on Multitasking and Media is a live-blogged report from (Re)Mixed Messages by Rachel Barenblat from PopTech. Bilton delivered many fascinating gems, which Barenblat captured with quotes like:
What does this mean for newspapers? “We talk about business models,” Bilton says, “but that’s getting ahead of what we really should be talking about — that [...]

Review: CSS: The Missing Manual

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★★★★ CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland is from O’Reilly (2009). The books in the missing manual series are always dependable resources, and this book is no exception. The book isn’t a big wow. It isn’t bad. It’s somewhere in the middle where solid [...]

Summary of eHow articles for September

Lots of hummingbirds in my life this past month. Their whirring was like traffic noise around my house. They even made their way into my eHow articles.

How to Tweet Your Mobile Video
How to Use Spry Widgets in Library Items or SSI
How to Find People to Follow on Twitter
How to Use the Adobe Flash Accessibility Panel
How [...]

New Tutorial from Project VII

In Easy Multi-Column Designs Using CSS 2.1 Display Properties, Project VII provides us with a free tutorial on using CSS display properties (specifically display: table properties) to create multi-column layouts.
CSS table display allows us to create a perfectly stable multi-column design, with a flexible middle column and fixed-width sidebars, while avoiding the pitfalls and hacks [...]

Make a Dreamweaver Spry Widget Work as a Library Item

Library items are reusable snippets of code that can be added to pages in Adobe Dreamweaver. A single copy of the Library item is used on numerous pages. When the Library item is updated, all the instances of that code on all the pages in the site are also updated. It’s a time saving tool [...]

Summary of eHow articles for June

Summer is here. A mini-vacation for my family was a fast trip to Sea World San Antonio. My kids and grandkids and myself took in the heat, the shows, and the water. We wore ourselves out having fun.
I also got a few things written for eHow in June:

How to Style a Form Label
How to Give [...]