Dreamweaver & SEO

Can websites be optimized for search engines on Dreamweaver? I know making a stylesheet and just adding a page title is part of SEO but I know there are other techniques too like key words, descriptions.. or meta tags.

I'll just go ahead and answer my own question..
Go to insert - HTML - head tags
Sorry for questioning the power of DW
edit: does it matter where I insert teh meta tags? I put them in <head> under
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
and above <title>

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Dreamweaver SEO and landing pages video tutorial

does anyone know where I can find the tutorial by Richard John Jenkins about SEO and landing pages?
It is a video tutorial in three parts; but I only found part two online.
If someone can point me to this complete three part tutorial that would be great.
Or any other video tutorial on how to build landing pages with Dreamweaver will be nice too.
thank you!

does anyone know where I can find the tutorial by Richard John Jenkins about SEO and landing pages?
It is a video tutorial in three parts; but I only found part two online.
If someone can point me to this complete three part tutorial that would be great.
Or any other video tutorial on how to build landing pages with Dreamweaver will be nice too.
thank you!

Dreamweaver Template use and Seo

Hi,
I am using dreamweaver templates for my online java training website http://www.javatutoronline.com .
My doubt is will using dreamweaver template positively or negatively affect seo for my website.

Online Java Training wrote:
Hi,
I am using dreamweaver templates for my online java training website http://www.javatutoronline.com .
My doubt is will using dreamweaver template positively or negatively affect seo for my website.
Looking at your page code I can only see <h4> heading tags, no <h1> or <h2><h3> etc. Googles spider will look at the text between each html tag and access it for importance, <h1> being the highest ranked, <h2> the next and so on.
It's important for SEO that you use 'buzz words' between the tags which Google considers the most applicable when it comes to look through your site to give your site every opportunity to be ranked higher.
So you might find that inserting 'Onlne Java Tuition' between a <h1> tag to be beneficial.
I would also insert the following between a <h2> tag as a kind of sub-header to the <h1>tag.
'Personal Online Java Tutor, Java J2ee Project Based Training by 8 Yrs Experienced Software Engineer. Get Practical Online Training in Java J2ee Jsp Servlets Jdbc J2ee Struts Hibernate Spring Ejb Ajax and other Frameworks.'
Obviously the 'buzz words' for your site are Java Online Tuition/Training so make sure you have quite a few of those integrated into the text on the page and perhaps the images alt tags as well.
Of course it is also important to try and get listed on as many associated sites/forums as posssibe as Google looks for back-links to your site. If it finds some on sites/forums which are already highly ranked then that too can help in the ranking.
It's a bit hit and miss though. Sometimes you can implement all of the above and virtually nothing will happen and at other times you can see some really very good results. I recently got a site ranked at no 2 in Google for a couple of generic buzz words which I never expected Google to bite on given that they were quite common to a lot of other websites in competition.
It's a lot easier if you have a catchment 'location' area which you are aiming at. For instance 'Hat Makers London' will stand a better chance than simply 'Hat Makers'.
Good luck.

Dreamweaver 8, html help + how to stop "styles"

I have and continue to encounter great frustration over 2 things I encounter when using Dreamweaver 8 which, I am sure, are very easily solved matters. In advance...I apologize for my ignorance and would appreciate any input provided:
1. I want to use Dreamweaver 8 to create HTML that I can paste into eBay ads. What emerges is HTML code by Dreamweaver that has no images appear because the image tags are: <img src="images/project/desiredimage1.jpg"> rather than whats needed,
full path, such as <img src="http://www.mywebsite.com/images/project/desiredimage1.jpg">
The result is that I have to copy and past the produced HTML into Open Office word processor, do "Find and Replace" ALL instances of img src="images with img src="http://www.mywebsite.com/images
What can I do to produce HTML code from within Dreamweaver that already has the full path to an image rather than just PART of the path to an image?
#2 is that when I make a webpage (or even just update a page in Dreamweaver) and I change the size or color of FONTS Dreamweaver applies a "STYLE" and number to that color and size of font so the result is HTML that is now, in places, got more HTML code preceeding text than any of you would probably believe + over 200 "Styles" created.
Questions are: Can I build a webpage without these "styles" being applied.... just alter a font and/or size color without my doing so result in absurd numbers of HTML style tags being pasted in front of a given area of text and is there any rescue for a page that NOW HAS hundreds of STYLES created in regards to that HTML document and literally is so replete with HTML coding
that its a nightmare
(example: <p align="left" class="style267"><strong><span class="style19"><span class="style54">text) and I can't even change stuff in some areas because the changes just don't take which I assume is due to the mountain of uneccessary HTML coding born of this use of "Styles" which I don't even need.
So...Bottom line is I just need to get Dreamweaver to produce HTML that has FULL image paths AND I need it to STOP with the "STYLES" tags....could it REALLY be that I am unable to change a font without this resulting in a new "STYLE" being created and an additional TAG for that new style being plastered before a line of text IN ADDITION to however many previous STYLE tags
already were THERE??!!??
Its really dreadful and the HTML of my webpage is a horror show....I think its LOST as in can't be saved...will have to be totally redone because of all the TAGS 90% of which don't need to be there. All thats needed is the most recent tag which corresponds to the latest font style, size color CHOSEN
Please help me to avoid this in the future and to be able make HTML that already has full paths to images.
Dayum even this forum is hard bcuz I had to come back in and edit so that scrolling wouldn't be necessary.....
to read my post!!!
This planet has definitely grown way complex REAL quickly

1. For the image,why not type the full path into the link box in the property inspector
2. Those styles are appearing because you are styling the text via the property inspector. You need to create a stylesheet, and create all your styles into that and link to it within the document.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/199710.html
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Dreamweaver 8 help please!

I'm having an issue with Dreamweaver 8, hope someone familiar
with the program can help me. I've been neck deep in a website
project for a client of my wife's work for the last couple of
months now. I'm old school and code everything by hand in a plain
Ol'text editor. The site works great and is live and all that, but
now I must train the client on how to make changes.
We convinced them to buy Dreamweaver because of the
templating feature, that way they can't screw up code that they
aren't suppose to touch. Also it has a built in FTP, so that's also
good for them. My wife's work bought Dreamweaver as well and I
installed it on my system, that way I can get the templates set up
and make sure it all works, etc.
Well here's the thing...
I load up any page from the site (that I've coded by hand),
and dreamweaver refuses to show content below the header
graphic/bar area in design mode. The site is a simple header bar
spanning over a 3 table column format with a footer that also spans
the underside of the 3 columns. My site works fine when I view it
out of DW and even if I click the "view in a browser" button inside
DW, but the display mode inside DW simply refuses to show the
content.
Any idea why? This is kind of critical because these people
know nothing about html and it would be far easier having them edit
in display mode than to go into code mode to change stuff.
Of course, what I should have done from the start is code the
entire site in DW, that way I wouldn't have this issue, but...
HELP! Thanks in advance!
E

Putting the page (the one on line currently - so not sure if
that's the
fixed one or not), but it's still showing errors,
1. No doc type (therefore putting non-standard browsers into
quirks mode)
2. Unclosed tag (point #16).
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> I'm having an issue with Dreamweaver 8, hope someone
familiar with the
> program
> can help me. I've been neck deep in a website project
for a client of my
> wife's
> work for the last couple of months now. I'm old school
and code everything
> by
> hand in a plain Ol'text editor. The site works great and
is live and all
> that,
> but now I must train the client on how to make changes.
>

Dreamweaver MX - troubles with a pop-up menu/navbar combo

Hi all,
I'm attempting to create a 4-button navigation bar, where
three of the buttons produce a popup menu with links to other pages
within the site onMouseOver. The navbar itself works great, but I
put all of that in a template, which of course is automatically
placed in a template folder. I have 6 or 7 other pages that all use
that template, and when I preview the template, the drop-down box
links work fine and I can get to an actual page from the template.
However once I'm at an actual page, every time I try to use the
navbar dropdown links again to get to another page, the browser
can't find the page! I tried moving the template to the same folder
as the pages, which solves the actual problem, but then prevents
the pages that are using the template from being automatically
updated, and therefore creates a new problem.
Should I just not use a template at all, and copy/paste the
template code into each page? Or is there another way to fix this
issue?
Thanks!

I'm presuming you are using the DW pop up menus... may I
suggest that you
read this article first before going any further:
http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/
There are better ways to create your menu, without all the
hassles of these
DW generic ones. Another article:
http://apptools.com/rants/menus.php
Anyway, you should not move the template file out of the
Template folder-
because as you say, it won't progate any changes to the child
pages.
The problem with the popups and the use of templates is in
the links. The
dwt file cannot read the actual links that are written in the
javascript
file the popups generate. There is a technote at the Adobe
site, but I
can't find it right now (seems to be a linking problem on the
site) do a
search for: "Using site root-relative paths with Fireworks
Pop-up Menus in
Dreamweaver templates", it may explain the issue further for
you
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm attempting to create a 4-button navigation bar,
where three of the
> buttons
> produce a popup menu with links to other pages within
the site
> onMouseOver. The
> navbar itself works great, but I put all of that in a
template, which of
> course
> is automatically placed in a template folder. I have 6
or 7 other pages
> that
> all use that template, and when I preview the template,
the drop-down box
> links
> work fine and I can get to an actual page from the
template. However once
> I'm
> at an actual page, every time I try to use the navbar
dropdown links again
> to
> get to another page, the browser can't find the page! I
tried moving the
> template to the same folder as the pages, which solves
the actual problem,
> but
> then prevents the pages that are using the template from
being
> automatically
> updated, and therefore creates a new problem.
>
> Should I just not use a template at all, and copy/paste
the template code
> into
> each page? Or is there another way to fix this issue?
>
> Thanks!
>

How can i create forward and back buttons for a dreamweaver slideshow?

Hi
I am an illustrator attempting to create a website in dreamweaver (basically it will be an online portfolio). I would like to have a box/slideshow with images of my work that someone can browse through by clicking 'next' and 'back' buttons. Does anyone know how to do this? I have been trying to find out how to do this for ages - i dont want to use flash if possible as i am worried about making the site too complicated. I know how to make swap image thumbnails, but i think my site would be more user friendly (and look more professional) if i could have next and back buttons. Would this involve complicated css code (which scares the life out of me!) or is there a relatively easy way to do it? I have got two 'dreamweaver for idiots' books, but neither of them cover this topic. Can anyone help?

If you are using CS4, there is a Command to create a Web Album... this does it automatically for you.
Otherwise, you can create this manually. Say you have 3 pages,
page1.html (is the index page of the album)
page2.html
page3.html
Therefore, using ordinary text links
Home would link to page1.html
Previous would link to page3.html
Next would link to page2.html
You would need to make adjustments naturally to each page as you move along with the gallery pages, changing the previous and the next links as needed. Below is a a basic example of setting up the links in a simple table structure. You would also then style the table layout as you see fit - yes, using css preferably :-)
<table>
<tr>
<td><h2>MY GALLERY OF PHOTOS</h2>
<a href="page3.html">Previous</a> | <a href="index.html">Home</a> | <a href="page2.html">Next</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<br>
<a href="../images/img_2401_jpg.jpg"><img src="../images/img_2401_jpg.jpg" border=0></a><br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Here's an article on creating an album using the DW Command I mentioned earlier. You could create the album and then copy and paste the code into a current page if you've already designed on.,... not too difficult, I just tested it. You do however, need to have Fireworks to process the images.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0/help.html?content=WSc78c5058ca073340dcda91 10b1f693f21-7ad1.html
You could also check out the Lightbox effect which is very popular:
http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/
Or do a google search for 'jquery'. There are different album effects using that framework as well.
Hope some of this helps :-)
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Help needed on how to set up Global Nav in Dreamweaver so that changes need to be made only once and will be reflected throughout the site.

Hi,
I've created a site with global navigation across the top (drop down menus) and some global buttons on the left side. Is there a way to code this type of global navigation in Dreamweaver so that people making changes to the site need only make them once (not on every page!) and have them reflected throughout the site? I'm using Dreamweaver MX to create the site.
Thanks to this forum I know that Server Side Includes is a way to handle this but I'd like to use Dreamweaver if possible.
Thanks!

As Murray suggested, templates are the way to go (though not really recommended for a fairly large site) - here's a link to some help docs to help you get started.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7acda .html
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How do I create a guestbook in Dreamweaver CS3, Plz Help....

Hi I want to create a guestbook in dreamweaver cs3 my website is www.freewebzs.com
Also it would be brilliant if you guys could help me and recommend me background colours, is there a free website I can get background colours from?
And also what fonts and colours are most popular for websites.
Im new to dreamweaver as ive just started using it so any advice would be great, thanks

I have to agree with David, if you are new to DW, then creating a guest book will be difficult for you. However, you don't have to re-invent the wheel, there are many guestbook scripts available to save you the time and certainly the headaches :-)
Take a look here for a selection: http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Guestbooks/
As for colours kuler is good, but you can also look at;
These palettes may help:
http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search?hsv=&sortType=rank&sortBy=asc&query= spring&hex=&lover=&hueOption0=&hueOption1=&hueOption2=&publishedBeginDate=12%2F2 7%2F2004&publishedEndDate=04%2F12%2F2009&x=26&y=17
More colour schemes here:
http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes/
For fonts, you are better staying with web-safe fonts that will ensure cross browser compatibility:
http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html
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Lightroom Gallery in Dreamweaver.

I was making a flash web gallery in Lightroom, and was wondering what I need to do in order for Flash Player to display my images, because right now it’s just blank. Thanks. I'm currently using Dreamweaver 8 but I also have cs3 on another computer. Anyway, thanks for your help.

I've no experience with using Lightroom, but have you looked at these help docs:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2.0/WSE7BC7E4B-BC7A-4c05-994A-A6F74113B819.html
There could be something there that helps you get it working :-)
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Best practice in dreamweaver based web design

Hi DW Gurus
I have been learning dreamweaver at work and at home for a while now and I am very interested in getting some details about best practices.
I am aware that my designs are still quite simple and don't expand dreamweaver anyway near its abilities, however as a novice I am sticking with DW CS4 and trying to developing foundation skills before trying to move on to greater adventures in web design. My dream is to eventually leave my employer and start my own freelance design business that I can manage while I am travelling in SE Asia (yeah I know - dream on .....). I am saving for my CS4 master suite license - my current one belongs to my employer.
In particular I have just started to do some free design a community organisation - I am trying to develop a portfolio of sites that I can show new clients (with money) what they could expect for their investments.
I am interested in getting some ideas about work flows - design standards - whether designers use the dreamweaver layouts - whether to code or to use the WYSIWYG.
Anyone care to share how they plan and go about their design work.
In my past life I was a SQL developer and a C#.net programmer - in those feilds there are standards for code and applications . Are there industry standards that would point to good or better designing?
Thanks for your time and interest in my topic,
Respect,
Doug

The first thing you need to learn is html and css, without knowing the programming language will only make DW a hard tool to use. You need to learn coding to WC3 standards.
FREE HTML & CSS Tutorials - http://w3schools.com/
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css
http://reference.sitepoint.com/html
Validation tools that you will need to bookmark.
HTML Validator - http://validator.w3.org
CSS Validator - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Hopefully you use Firefox, and if you do, the web developer toolbar is essential:
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
Yes, you can rely somewhat on DW's layout mode (or what features are left of it), but this will only lead to problems when it comes time to troubleshoot any problem pages that do not render correctly across the various browsers.
A paying client will expect a well designed, fully functional website and you need to have the programming skills to accomplish this for them.
Not sure how far advanced you are but the Adobe site has quite a few CSS based tutorials - and I would strongly urge you to go through the series listed below - to get up to speed on the correct way to lay out a page.
Creating your first website (series)
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS42d4a1c0291fbe4e59147ede1232ff9686c-8 000.html
LIST OF CSS TUTORIALS ON ADOBE SITE:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/css.html
If you use Fireworks as a tool to create your layouts, then the following tutorial may be of benefit:
TAKING FIREWORKS COMP TO DREAMWEAVER:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt1.html
Good luck in your future endeavours
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Dreamweaver just stopped working CS4...HELP!!

After about 6 weeks from purchase, today Dreamweaver CS4 just launched the green splash screem and thats it. I have unloaded, loaded twice but its not launching.
I downloaded the files from MY ACCOUNT, put in my serials numbers, get a GREEN CHECK MARK...and it loads after a bit of time. When I launch the GRENN SPLASH screen only pops up. I shut off all virus software, shut off XP firewall but the same results
Thats it...I am at my ends.. someone.....help....
Send me an email to pcb4u at verizon dot net
I just don't get it................................
Anyone from Adobe reading this?
Jay
California

Try step 4 in the following technote:
http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_19105.
If that doesn't work, try #12, deleting your personal configuration folder. It's in the same location.
On Vista, it's located at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\en_US\Configuration.
It's a hidden folder, so you need to enable hidden folders in Windows Explorer. Rename the folder to Configuration_old and launch Dreamweaver. It should create a new Configuration folder with the factory defaults.
Is it an Acer computer? There's a known conflict with Acer security software. Get the patch from here: http://www.egistec.com/oem-acer001/program-update.html.
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Dreamweaver CS4 has stopped working

*** Bug Report ***
"Dreamweaver crashes when trying to open it."
April 19th - 8:00 PM
Reproduce Error:
Launch Dreamweaver CS4 from start menu.
What happens:
Does not load.
Error message appears:
Notes:
Has been working fine for past 3 days.
Errors occured today at random, without reason.
Reporting from a system that has been reformatted one week ago, fresh install of Windows Vista Ultimate with latest updates & service packs.
Dreamweaver CS4 installed along with the Master Suite Collection, other software function just fine.
System Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ 2.80 GHz
4.00 GB Memory (RAM)
500 GB Storage
Windows Vista 64-bit
Additional Notes:
I have had previous peril with Fireworks CS4 earlier this week crashing and had to take valuable time researching the problem. Happened to be one font out of three thousand that I have readily available for my needs. This new problem with Dreamweaver has further disappointed me and I need to use the software I purchased as soon as possible. I have taken the time to send in a bug report, as well as post this thread.
Please guide me in a safe & proper procedure to determine the cause of the crash. Thank you.
Sean

Jhfras wrote:
Nadia
Renaming the Configuation folder and then opening Dreamweaver worked like a charm. I was ready to give up on CS4 and I had already gone back to using DW 8. Thank you for sharing- don't think I would have ever solved this without your help. That is what sharing is all about.
You're welcome :-)
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Dreamweaver MX shuts down when trying to connect to FTP

Whenever I try to connect, the popup of it trying to connect
shows up but then it shuts down my dreamweaver. I had already ran a
test and the connection settings are correct but I don't know what
the problem with it is.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

Do you have passive mode selected?
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> Whenever I try to connect, the popup of it trying to
connect shows up but
> then
> it shuts down my dreamweaver. I had already ran a test
and the connection
> settings are correct but I don't know what the problem
with it is.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>

Inserting images in dreamweaver

HELP! :)
when I insert images on my page, large grey box with a grey X
appears...does anyone know how to fix this?

Josie is right - sounds like you are not working in a defined
site within Dreamweaver.
The cross mark means the image is not linked correctly.
If you are working in a defined site, then maybe post a link
to the problem page or post the code to
the probelm area.
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> when I insert images on my page, large grey box with a
grey X appears...does anyone know how to
> fix this?

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