Tips on this blog
Dreamweaver Tips
- The Secret of Building a Table in Dreamweaver
- Using Dreamweaver to add labels to forms
- Adapting Dreamweaver CSS layouts to display:table rules
- What to do with Dreamweaver’s invitation to attach more than one style sheet
- Presentation: New CSS features in Dreamweaver CS3
- The Dreamweaver 8 toggle displaying CSS styles
- Dreamweaver 8 CSS Styles panel improvements
- Using Insert Div Tag in Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Modify Dreamweaver’s Default HTML New Document
- Dreamweaver MX Site Definitions on OS X
- Rebuild Dreamweaver’s Site Cache when Library Items Don’t Refresh
HTML Tips
- More about aside elements – going for block
- How to make HMTL5 Semantic Elements more Accessible
- ARIA States 101
- ARIA Roles 101
- An Example of HTML5 markup
- Document Outlines in HTML5
- HTML5: the new hgroup element
- New Link Relations in HTML5
- HTML 5 markup for blog posts
- The definition list
- Using cite in HTML
- The Joy of HTML
- Workaround for poor longdesc support
- Eliminate unwanted whitespace in Internet Explorer list rendering
- What is semantic markup and why should you care?
CSS Tips
- Media Query Fact Sheet
- Styling Lists 101
- Styling Text 101
- CSS Selectors 101
- The latest of using border-radius to create rounded corners
- Hypermile your CSS
- Attribute Selectors: They’re Unicorns and Rainbows
- Multiple Background Images with CSS3
- Media Queries 101
- Resolving Conflicts in CSS
- How to look like a Wiz with RGBa
- CSS3 Transitions: The Basics
- Adding Borders to Data Tables with CSS
- Style a Fieldset with Rounded Corners using CSS
- Make Rounded Corners with CSS3
- Designing with Structural Thinking
- Style Fieldsets like a Pro
- Three examples of fieldsets styled with CSS
- The Cascade and ordering external stylesheet links
- The Cascade by Example
- Styling the Label Element with CSS
- Styling a fieldset with CSS
- Calculate the specificity of CSS selectors
- Attribute Selectors in CSS
- Tables, borders, and border-collapse
- Retrain your HTML 3.2 Brain to Think in CSS
- Using Firefox to Wage a Class War
- Using a backslash in CSS Hacks
- What is a wrapper div?
- Three steps to a 2 column layout
- Want to write CSS for a handheld?
- Testing CSS for handhelds
General Tips
- Curation in an Age of Information Overload
- Tagging a PDF
- An explanation of the abbreviations in a DTD
- Presentation: Ten Checkpoints of a Web Standards Based Curriculum
- Make a slideshow with Fireworks CS3 (or not)
- Tip for Testing Web Pages Locally
- Checking on Link Popularity
- Turning off Cache in Safari
- Resizing Text on Windows with IE
- If It’s Yellow it Must be Google
- Getting Text Edit to Open an HTML file in plain text
- IE7′s new feed reader
Tips and articles published elsewhere
- Can the Dynamic Web be Truly Accessible? at Slideshare
- HTML5 and Accessibility on Slideshare
- Twitter for Writers on Slideshare
- You and Your Stylesheet on Slideshare
- Web Design 101: Floats at Digital Web Magazine
- Make Your Site Mobile Friendly at Think Vitamin
- BlogHer Web Standards Presentation (PowerPoint)
- Achieve Accessibility with Dreamweaver at Wise-Women.org
- The Early Bird Catches the CSS: Planning Structural HTML at Wise-Women.org
- Ten Minutes to WML at Wise-Women.org
- Tips for Disclosing Affiliate Links at My Online Business Journey
eBooks
How to Create a Responsive Web Site Using Dreamweaver CS 5.5. Adobe included media queries and the possibility of responsive design in CS 5.5. My instructions will help you understand it.
A Beginner’s Guide: Writing CSS with Dreamweaver 8 available as an eBook. The principles explained in the ebook still apply to versions of Dreamweaver through CS3. The CSS interface in Dreamweaver CS4 and above is slightly changed, but the information is still useful.
The TGB Elder Geek
Under the name The TGB Elder Geek, I write articles for Time Goes By.
- Select, Cut, Paste and Copy
- Making Links
- Passwords
- Zooming
- Readability
- Keeping up with Technology
- Blog Subscriptions
- Love Your Address Bar
- Download and Install
- Resize a YouTube Video
- What do You Want to Know?
- You and Your Files, Part 1
- You and Your Files, Part 2
- Readable
- Select More than One
- Working with Photos
- Playing with Boxes
- The Big Mystery
- Secrets of Blog Commenting
- How to Use Facebook
