The possibility that you may want media queries to work in older browsers does exist. We normally think of media queries as only being used to create responsive designs, which implies modern browsers on devices like iPhone or iPad. However, there is a JavaScript you can use if you need to support older browsers for [...]
I’ve been thinking of writing about using the Dreamweaver CS 5.5 interface to create media queries lately. Dreamweaver’s system works, but it isn’t easy to figure out and doesn’t match up with what you read in articles by Ethan Marcotte and other responsive design gurus. The interface doesn’t explain itself well, and offers very little [...]
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Adobe announced yesterday that it will stop developing the Flash Player for mobile devices. They will continue to support the Flash Player on desktop devices. Their statement said, Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app [...]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
If you have Dreamweaver 5.5 and are wanting to use the new features for using Media Queries included, here are some resources to get to going. What’s New in Dreamweaver How Media Queries Can Make Designing for Mobile Devices Easier Building Mobile Pages with Dreamweaver CS5.5 Introduction to Media Queries, Pt. 1 Introduction to Media [...]
I’m teaching a beginning Dreamweaver class at UNM Continuing Ed this week. In Continuing Ed classes, it’s common to have adults who want to learn something new in hopes of improving their job chances. In web education classes of any kind, it’s common to have someone who’s been working in print and wants to transition [...]
It’s easy peasy to create a table in Dreamweaver. It’s not so easy to create a table in Dreamweaver that sticks to the ideal of separation of content from presentation and uses CSS rather than HTML to determine presentation. If you want to build a table for your web page that does use best practice [...]
One of the classes I’ve been teaching at UNM Continuing Ed lately is Beginning Dreamweaver. The school uses Adobe Creative Suite 4 in the lab where I teach. The DOCTYPE options in DW 4 are either transitional or strict in HTML 4/XHTML 1.0. Outside of the UNM lab, the most recent version of DW on [...]
I went to Glenda Sims session at AccessU and ended up sitting by Matt May from Adobe and Dennis Lembree. You’d think with them right next to me, the iPhone camera would have done better, alas. Glenda gave some great tips for making the most of Dreamweaver’s accessibility features. She also mentioned that WCAG 2.0 [...]
by Dhruv Kapoor Normally with a point release you expect a couple of minor improvements but that is definitely not the case with this version of Dreamweaver. This new version has a heavy emphasis on features for multiple screen resolutions and mobile devices. This upgrade hosts a wide variety of fantastic surprises that hone most [...]
In Introducing Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Product Family, Adobe made some announcements important to educators. First, they are moving milestone releases such as CS3, CS4, and CS5 to a two year cycle. The in between years will get updates like the just announced CS5.5. Here’s what they are doing to the web suite. For Web [...]
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