What do you wish Dreamweaver would do? I’ll bet you have a pet peeve or a longed-for feature. I’d like to see Dreamweaver do some new things. Or maybe, do some old things differently. I’d like to see proper icons in the Property Inspector for bold, italic, strong, and em. Bold and italic may make [...]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Word got to me that University of New Mexico Continuing Ed needed someone to teach some Dreamweaver classes. Well, I can do that. I talked to the good folks at UNMCE and agreed to take on some of them. I haven’t been in a classroom in a while. I figure it will be good for [...]
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack is a free extension. Sorry, it only runs on CS5—can’t retrofit older versions of Dreamweaver. Togetherville: Walled Garden Social Networking for the Younger Set. There have been social networks for young children before, but this one is making news right now. I’m wondering what educators will do with this new [...]
A couple of preview-type articles on what we can expect to see happening with CSS 3 are fascinating, even if not practical for immediate use. CSS Template Layout Module and The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model. Introducing Dreamweaver CS 5 at the Adobe site gives you some highlights of the new Dreamweaver features in Creative [...]
Creating Accessible Links in PDFs from PWS gives “techniques for tagging links correctly to ensure that they are both keyboard operable and usable with a screen reader. It also looks at, amongst other things, how to make URLs more intelligible for screen reader users.” Dreamweaver CS5 Features Part 1: The All New CSS Starter Pages [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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 [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2009
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 [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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 — [...]
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