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Category Archives: Dreamweaver

Useful Links: DW CS5 HTML5 Pack, Togetherville, synthetic cells, something’s happening here

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 [...]

Useful links: CSS 3, DW CS5

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 [...]

Useful Links: Links in PDFs, CSS starter pages, Ning networks

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 — [...]

Review: CSS: The Missing Manual

by Web Teacher product CSS: The Missing Manual (Amazon.com affiliate link) ★★★★ 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 [...]

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 [...]