Captivate Dreamweaver Tutorial

I am developing a series of educational websites designed to
support the needs of staff and students. The subject site I'm
currently working on is Media Studies and it contains a unit on Web
Design &amp; Web Conventions along with New Technologies.
I'm looking for someone who knows Dreamweaver inside out and
could put together a Captivate tutorial / demo / assessment
resource to help staff and students learn how to create a website
and pick up the codes and conventions of web layout, design,
interactivity, etc.
I'm thinking about focussing on Dreamweaver because it
appears to be industry-standard and this would be great for
students moving in to work requiring web design.
If you think you might be interested, please get in touch.
Kind regards, Richard Gent
[e] [email protected]
[w] www.mediaedu.co.uk

I'd love to but fear I don't know DW well enough to meet
expectations.
If you haven't yet, ask in the DW forum. Captivate is easy
enough to
grasp. Most folks who really know DW 'inside and out' should
have an
easy enough time using it.
If not, they can always post here for help! ;-)
Erik
Richard Gent wrote:
> Anyone interested? Kr, Richard
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Why does it have to be video???
On-Line Video Tutorials - subscription
http://lynda.com/
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Create a website with dreamweaver tutorial video

Dont waste time trying to learn. Get video tutorials from
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Hi bugmenow,
I disagree, video tutorials aren't always easy to use. You
have to stop them all the time and if you don't want any sound (for
example at your work) it isnt possible to use video tutorial. Next
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Dreamweaver Tutorial - CSS to style contact form not showing in Browser

Hi I have followed the tutorial on
http://dreamweaverspot.com/css-dreamweaver-web-forms/.
It worked well so far in Dreamweaver all the changes are done,
however not after I have uploaded the page to the server. If you
look on www.theoldfort.com/contact.htm you can see only the border
the other styles are not being shown and the border is too wide. I
tried to make it narrower but didnt succeed.

Styling form elements is like nailing jelly to the wall....
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200701/styling_form_controls_with_css_revisited/
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> Hi I have followed the tutorial on
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http://dreamweaverspot.com/css-dreamweaver-web-forms/.
It worked well so
> far in
> Dreamweaver all the changes are done, however not after
I have uploaded
> the
> page to the server. If you look on
www.theoldfort.com/contact.htm you can
> see
> only the border the other styles are not being shown and
the border is too
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Since 1998

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David Powers is pretty good when it comes to his tutorials and they are usually thoroughly tested. As I say in a simulated windows 8.1 envrionment in IE11 the nav looks fine BUT of course its better to test in the real thing.
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#mainnav li {
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Group 2 (non-exempt) would be assigned or otherwise access the same Intro tutorial lesson but then the non-exempt asssessment.
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LouisaBoyles wrote:
Thanks to you both for correcting the wonky main image.
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Hello There,
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NB.
there is also manage post page which all posts are listed which contains the Edit and Delete link which lead to update post and delete post respectively.
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MX2004, Dynamic FAQ -
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/163/tn_16341.html
Lynda.com - MX2004 Beyond the Basics (video)
http://www.lynda.com/home/displaycoursenotabs.aspx?lpk2=86&lpk67=true
Used Books -
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Dynamic-Sites-Macromedia-Studio/dp/0735713766
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GoDaddy is a very good registrar. I, personally would not recommend them for hosting, having on numerous occasions seen clients and potential clients with websites that did not load, loaded slowly, seemed to not work and so on. If they're limiting what you can do with php (or any server-side code) without making a clear alternative for you, then they're too limited to use for a website. And that comment is not aimed at GoDaddy, it's aimed at any web hosting provider that limits their clients in some way that makes websites not work.
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Hi All
I am trying to build a site using asp.net and SQL Server via
Dreamweaver.!!!! To help me on my way I decided to build a tiny
test site just to establish the connections. However, try as I
might I can’t make a connection to a database and am now
rapidly loosing the will to live due to the quite unbelievable time
I have spent trying to sort this out. Now this post is my last best
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“an unidentified error has occurred”.
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URL, Verify that the URL Prefix maps to the root of the site. Again
dependent on my computer’s mood.
I am convinced that I have all the necessary components in
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incorrect and have altered the string accordingly).
I now strongly believe the problem is something to do with
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easily be wrong.
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whilst using .net and Adobe created a patch to fix the problem. Has
Dreamweaver 8 any similar problems?
I’m sorry this post is a bit long but trust me I could
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tried to resolve this!
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than you can imagine.
Cheers
Burnsie

Sorry for jumping into the thread with a bit of an off topic question, but how do you find out what kind of a db the asp server is using? I've asked my company's web host a number of times for info/help in getting connected using Dreamweaver so I can redesign our site and I never hear back from them. It's a very specialized web hosting server set up for rubber stamp web sites. Looks like most of their customers use the online website design tool that they provide, but it is very limited in what it can do. Very limited.
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David Powers' tutorial, "Setting up CF development environment for DW"

I left this comment for Mr. Powers at the end of his tutorial and was advised to post here by the Moderator:
I had no problems until the very end: can’t display the final page in Live View or in any browser.
One anomaly in the CF installation: Adobe strongly advises running the CF 9.0.1 update [ http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/849/cpsid_84973.html ]. I ran this update after completing your installation procedure and before “Setting up in DW” for the Mac. The “Update successfully installed” window included the following message:
“SolR server has been upgraded. Re-index all the collections.”
Having no idea what that meant, I proceeded to create the CF site in DW. No variations from your text until Item #9, “Create a ColdFusion data source”: my text box was labeled “Database FOLDER,” not “Database File” per your tutorial.
Where did I go wrong?
Mac Pro Intel, OS 10.6.7, MAMP installed but not running at the time.
Can anyone here help me?

ilssac wrote:
WolfWB wrote:
Where did I go wrong?
Not nearly enough of the CORRECT information here to provide any sensible help.
Code snippet (small, but relevant sample code showing the problem.... not entire page dumps)
Description of expected results
Description of actual results, including error messages if relevant.
Description of why the actual results are not correct if it is not clear to the casual observer.
WolfWB wrote: “SolR server has been upgraded. Re-index all the collections.”
SOLR is a text search engine that is included with ColdFusion to provide, you know, text searching capability. When you upgraded to the newer version of CF, that included upgrades to the SOLR engine which would have invalidated any text search indexes previously created. So you would need to re-index the text collections to recreate those indexes.
If none of that makes ANY sense to you, then you most likely have NO text Collections with NO indexes for those collections and thus have NOTHING to re-index so that message PROBABLY had NO relevance to any issues you are experiencing.
First, thank you for trying to help, ilssac! I apologize for the frustration I caused, but this was my first encounter with CF; I'd installed it purely to get through a Dreamweaver tutorial. Second, I haven't a clue about where to collect a code snippet to send you. Providing a link to the tutorial and pointing you to the very last instructions are the best I can do: start at the subhead, "Create a ColdFusion data source," steps #1 through #13 and Figures #22 and #23. The expected result is a correct DW Live View display of the HTML page populated with data drawn from a database (Fig. #23) instead of the "dynamic text objects" (Fig. #22).
Regarding the SolR, you're undoubtedly right about nothing having been created in CF, ergo nothing to re-index.
FYI, the original CF installation was on my Mac Pro. I did exactly the same installation -- in exactly the same way (per the tutorial) -- on my MacBook Pro, and got the same result. The tutorial predates the 9.0.1 upgrade which looks to me, the absolute CF novice, like the source of the problem. I'd still like to get it to work, if only to justify the time I've put in!

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