New to dreamweaver, complex web design.

hello, I'm a sports science student with a passion for helping people. I always get asked questions from novice gym users who don't know where or how to start. I'd like to create a website that allows them to find all they need to know In one place with all scientifically studied results and articles about supplements training etc. But also that based on a number of variables will give them a program to follow, free of charge. I downloaded dreamweaver and am at a loss about how to use it, I am very tech savi but not with web design.
I Have thought through a design.
The home/welcome page will be plain and simple with a introductory paragraph with a button saying 'get started' or a button saying 'I've already started' one will take them to a page that has variables such as height, weight, age, body fat, goals and experience, and through this information spit out a program, I know how to use all variables to create a routine (with my formula ofcourse) and obviously the other button will lead to there already created program. The program itself will allow for a befire photo and constant recent photoa to be uploaded, also a table for day to day weigh ins and progress check on weight lifted in the gym. On the far right of the page I want to have a seperate scroll down bar with titles of various articles about different areas of fitness.
I Know this seems like a lot but i have the contacts to get users on to the site but I need good design to keep them there. Is all of this possible on dreamweaver?
THank ink you for any help

When you use a complex web site there are several parts to it
- the HTML which controls the layout and the text
- the pictures (which can only be changed by the web designer, nobody else)
- the JavaScript, which can do certain things but cannot make permanent changes
- the web server, which will run scripts (programs) to do things
It is the web server which will run software to create programs, allow upload of pictures, remember status etc.
This is written by an experienced web programmer, who must be experienced in all the latest security issues. IT MUST NOT BE DONE BY A BEGINNER OR AMATEUR. I say this with pain because it used to be a great way to learn. But no longer, because the bad guys know all the tricks, and if a beginner does it, in no time at all, you will have porn hosted in your web site, it will be secretly sending spam, and all the personal information will be stolen. If you are in the EU, this last is particularly serious as you have an absolute responsibility to protect personal information, and there are unlimited fines.

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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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Vocabulary for web design and beyond

Anyone tackling web design will encounter dozens of unfamiliar terms. I have compiled together this glossary to help them. I may update and expand in the future. Until then, feel free to use or pass along.
Some of these terms don’t relate strictly to web design, but also to computer graphics and computer programming generally, as I’ve found that such terms are also important to reading and understanding any tutorials or other materials on web design.
Asynchronous (1) General use. Not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase. (2) Digital communication. Pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are instead derived from special characters in the data stream.
Bitmap image Image that uses geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes, which are all based on mathematical equations. In a bitmap image, each pixel on a display screen is assigned at least one bit to indicate whether the pixel should reflect the background color, the foreground color, or some other color. each pixel in the bitmap might have 16, 24, or 48 bits of information associated with it. The more bits, the greater the resolution of the bitmap – and the larger the file. Compare Vector image.
C (programming language) General-purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. It was designed for implementing system software and is also widely used for developing portable application software. C has greatly influenced many other popular programming languages, most notably C++, which began as an extension to C.
C++ Statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language and originally named C with Classes. It was renamed C++ in 1983.
Cache Component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere. If requested data is contained in the cache (cache hit), this request can be served by simply reading the cache, which is comparatively faster. Otherwise (cache miss), the data has to be recomputed or fetched from its original storage location, which is comparatively slower.
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
ColdFusion Programming language based on standard HTML that is used to write dynamic webpages. It allows for the creation of pages that differ depending on user input, database lookups, time of day, or other criteria. ColdFusion pages consist of standard HTML tags together with CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) tags such as <CFQUERY>, <CFIF> and <CFLOOP>. ColdFusion was introduced by Allaire in 1996, acquired by Macromedia in a merger in April 2001, and acquired by Adobe in December 2005.
Compound selector Can be used to combine two or more style rules to create a style definition that displays only when one style is contained within another. Compound styles are useful when you want to do something like use the Heading 1 tag multiple times to format headlines in different ways on the same web page. For example, you could create one style for headlines that appear in the main story area of a page and then create another style for headlines that appear in the sidebar on the page and still use the Heading 1 tag to format both. Compound styles are created by combining ID, class, or tag styles and look like this: #sidebar h1.
Contextual selector A type of Style Sheet Selector that
CRE Loaded Open source online store management and shopping cart system for e-commerce from Chain Reaction eCommerce. It is based on osCommerce, runs on any LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server, and is supported by an active international community of users and developers. For a monthly subscription ($10/mo. as of 2011), CRE Loaded allows small and medium-sized merchants to accept credit card payments in a web site that mirrors their own online stores.
CSS See Cascading Style Sheet.
Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language (such as HTML), a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), a presentation definition language (such as CSS), and the Document Object Model. DHTML allows scripting languages to change variables in a web page's definition language, which in turn affects the look and function of otherwise “static” HTML page content, after the page has been fully loaded and during the viewing process.
ECMA International International membership-based non-profit standards organization for information and communication systems.
ECMAScript Scripting language standardized by Ecma International in the ECMA-262 specification and ISO/IEC 16262. The language is widely used for client-side scripting on the web, in the form of several well-known dialects such as JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript.
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) Family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used HTML, the language in which web pages are written. While HTML (prior to HTML5) was defined as an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language framework, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because XHTML documents need to be well-formed, they can be parsed using standard XML parsers—unlike HTML, which requires a lenient HTML-specific parser.
Extensible Markup Language Set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards. Its design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for the languages of the world. Known by its acronym XML.
HTML See HyperText Markup Language.
Hypermedia Graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks that intertwine to create a generally non-linear medium of information. This contrasts with the broader term multimedia, which may be used to describe non-interactive linear presentations as well as hypermedia. The World Wide Web is a classic example of hypermedia, whereas a non-interactive cinema presentation is an example of standard multimedia due to the absence of hyperlinks.
Hypertext Text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Predominant markup language and basic building-block of webpages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags, enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>), within the web page content. HTML tags normally come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>. The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag (they are also called opening tags and closing tags). Known by its acronym HTML.
Hypertext preprocessor (PHP) Widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. It brings life to websites by communicating with external data sources, such as databases, news feeds, and XML documents. PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. PHP 3 was launched in 1998; PHP 4 was released in 2000; and PHP 5 was released in 2005.
Java Programming language released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere". Java is currently one of the most popular programming languages in use, and is widely used from application software to web applications.[
JavaScript Implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. It can be characterized as a prototype-based object-oriented scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions.
JPEG Commonly used method of Lossy compression for digital photography that was named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the standard. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.
Linux Family of Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel (central OS component). Linux can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from mobile phones, tablet computers and video game consoles, to mainframes and supercomputers. The development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under licenses such as the GNU General Public License.
Lossy compression Data encoding method which discards (loses) some of the data, in order to achieve its goal, with the result that decompressing the data yields content that is different from the original, though similar enough to be useful in some way. Lossy compression is most commonly used to compress multimedia data (audio, video, still images), especially in applications such as streaming media and internet telephony. By contrast, lossless compression is required for text and data files, such as bank records, text articles, etc.
MySQL Relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. Acronym for “My Structured Query Language.”
Open source Describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Before the term open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code.
osCommerce Open source Commerce. It allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs involved. Combines open source solutions to provide a free and open development platform, which includes the PHP web scripting language, the Apache web server, and the MySQL database server. With no restrictions or special requirements, osCommerce can be installed on any PHP3 or PHP4 enabled web server, on any environment that PHP and MySQL supports, which includes Linux, Solaris, BSD, and Microsoft Windows environments.
PHP See Hypertext preprocessor.
Rasterization The process of converting a Vector image into a Bitmap image.
Rasterize See Rasterization.
Shopping cart software Software used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online. The software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase. Upon checkout, the software typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (i.e. postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes.
Style sheet selector One of the two parts of a CSS rule (the other being the properties, or declaration block) that declares which of the markup elements a style applies to. Selectors may apply to all elements of a specific type, or only those elements that match a certain attribute (e.g., how they are placed relative to each other in the markup code, or on how they are nested within the document object model). There are many types of style sheet selectors: element selectors, which select by element name; class selectors, which select by class name; contextual selectors, which select by context based on parent elements (what the element is nested within or what precedes it in the document), etc..
Supercomputer Computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers are typically one-of-a-kind custom designs produced by companies such as Cray, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, who had purchased many of the 1980s companies to gain their experience. Since October 2010, the Tianhe-1A supercomputer, located in China, has been the fastest in the world.
Tag Non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. HTML tags include paragraph, heading 1, heading 2, etc.
Unix Computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs. The Unix operating system was first developed in assembly, which is machine-dependent and a low-level programming language. Ken Thompson created the B language in 1969 and Unix was written in the B language, a high-level programming language. The first Unix system written in C was released in November 1973.
Vector image Image made up of numerous individual, scalable objects. These objects are defined by mathematical equations rather than pixels, so they always render at the highest quality. Objects may consist of lines, curves, and shapes with editable attributes such as color, fill, and outline. Changing the attributes of a vector object does not effect the object itself. Compare Bitmap image.
Vector processor Central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set containing instructions that operate on one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors. This is in contrast to a scalar processor, whose instructions operate on single data items. Also known as array processor.
Web analytics Measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data, including the number of visitors and page views, for understanding and optimizing web usage. It can be used as a tool for measuring website traffic and for business and market research. Web analytics applications can also help companies measure the results of traditional print advertising campaigns. It helps one to estimate how the traffic to the website changed after the launch of a new advertising campaign.
Web design Design of the way that content is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, using a web browser or other web-enabled software.
Web development Refers to the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network). This can include Web design, web content development, client liaison, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development. However, among web professionals, "web development" usually refers to the main non-design aspects of building web sites: writing markup and coding. Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services.
World Wide Web Consortium Main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. It is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. Known by its acronym W3C.
XHTML See Extensible HyperText Markup Language.
XML See Extensible Markup Language.
Zend Engine Open source scripting engine (a Virtual Machine) commonly known for the important role it plays in the web automation language PHP.

Thanks for posting this!
I would only mention that your definition is incomplete for this -
Contextual selector A type of Style Sheet Selector that
and that it's most often referred to now as a Descendent selector, not a contextual selector. It's basically the same as the Compound selector that you have already defined....

New to web design - learn Dreamweaver first?

Greetings to the Dreamweaver community.
After 30 years in print design, I've finally made a decision to learn a little something about web design. With that goal in mind, when I updgraded to CS6, I bought the "CS6 Design and Web Premium" package. The package includes Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash Pro. But I'm a little confused where to start.
I always buy the Adobe "Classroom in a Book" series to learn the basics or new aspects of Adobe products. All three apps have CIB counterparts and I'm thinking that I will but the Dreamweaver CIB first, then Fireworks, and then Flash Pro?
So what am asking is... is this the right direction? I notice on some discussion boards that some use Fireworks more than Dreamweaver: I just want to make sure I'm on the right path.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Clinton

Welcome to the DW community, Clinton!
30 years - that is some real experience you've got up your sleeve!
Web Design, okay, it works this way. It has 2 parts - for starters:
Design/ Mockup/ Layout/ Wireframe/ UI (different people refer to this differently) - but the end goal is the same - to create the 'design', per se, that your site is going to look like
Development/ Slicing/ Compositing/ CSSing/ PSD - CSS (again, different references) - making the 'design' you've made in an application like Photoshop or Fireworks to be 'web-friendly' - in other words, making it .html and .css files that are the 'core' elements for a website
Most web designers (including me) use Photoshop to create design cuts (PSD files) that we send back and forth a million times to the client to get them approved. Then, 'slice' some key elements such as backgrounds, boxes, etc... Then open Dreamweaver, write the 'markup' - which is 'what' you want to display on your website (content, tables, boxes, widgets, snippets, etc..). Then, 'style' the website using 'CSS' - to match it to the 'PSD' that the client had approved.
This is it - I don't know if I could've put it any shorter!
CSS - Cascading Style Sheet - it is a piece of code that instructs web browsers how your website has to be displayed. Height, spacing, margins, width, colors, display-type, etc... With the birth of CSS-3, things are even more easier. A few key things that CSS-3 can do are lets say, Gradients, rounded-edges, etc.. (for which you had to use an actual .png or .jpg image in CSS-2). Now, CSS-3 can give you the exact same effect with no use of an image.
HTML - Now that HTML5 is quickly replacing older web standards, you've decided to start your 'web journey' at the right time, I'd say. HTML5 has endless possibilites for creating 'responsive' web design - responsive meaning one design, multi-devices - for desktops, tablets & mobile phones.
With all that said, Dreamweaver CS6 has some great tools for HTML5 standards such as 'Fluid Grid Layout' - with which you create 1 design, code 3 different CSS documents and BAM - your website will be optimized for all 3 devices.
Fireworks - Definitely usable for web design. Fireworks CS6 also has some great tools such as 'CSS Generator' that gives you the CSS code for a selected design element - in other words, design it in Fireworks, hover over it, Fireworks will generate the CSS code for you.
jQuery - You should look this up - has some great 'plugins' that you can use in your website design/ development. Now that 'Flash' is kind of dead (modern handhelds don't support Flash), jQuery is your friend. Best part is it is fully open-source.
The next step - Dynamic websites - As the name suggests, you can get into building more 'interactive' websites - like a shopping cart, etc... later on once you get a proper hang of some basic HTML & CSS. And if you decide to use jQuery, you'll also get a hang of JavaScripting - which is critical to build interactive websites as you progress.
You can take a look at this video on Youtube. I know it doesn't have too many views. But, I personally feel it is a good place for you begin with Fireworks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJmyYfNu1M
All this maybe going a little over your head right now - since you're just starting up. But, feel free to post questions as and when you have one and we'll be happy to help you! The world needs more web designers/ developers after all!
All the best.
-ST

Mac or pc for dreamweaver web design?

So just wondering anyone better to do this would think pc
since most users visiting the site are pc based? Im using at work a
mac for designing a new website using cs3, I test the files on a
outdated pc to see how the files work and look....... I cant upload
anything since when its done i have to pass the files to the owner
to upload the pages since im not allowed access to it.....

Sage advice. I would concur.
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>I have a MAC (G5 dual 2.3 MHz Power PC) which I bought
primarily to run
>Final Cut Pro. This machine also has dreamweaver CS2
installed but I rarely
>use it for web development.
> My other computer is a core2 quad 28.3 MHz PC. Where I
do 99% of my web
> design using Dreamweaver CS3.
>
> Both machines are very stable, fast and reliable.
Overall, I prefer
> working on the PC, I feel more comfortable with the PC
because my first
> computer was a PC (286), I have 11 years experience with
the PC platform.
> Also, the PC lets me prview my designs on all the
primary browsers; IE,
> FF, Safari, and Opera
>
> My advice, go with the machine on which you have the
most work experience.
> Its not so much the program you use, its more about how
well adapted you
> are to the platform work flow.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> "takevin" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:gib7d2$rap$[email protected]..
>> So just wondering anyone better to do this would
think pc since most
>> users
>> visiting the site are pc based? Im using at work a
mac for designing a
>> new
>> website using cs3, I test the files on a outdated pc
to see how the files
>> work
>> and look....... I cant upload anything since when
its done i have to
>> pass the
>> files to the owner to upload the pages since im not
allowed access to
>> it.....
>>
>
>

Is Dreamweaver the best web design software to learn for an aspiring web designer?

Hi Everyone,
Perhaps difficult to get an unbiased answer to this in a
Dreamweaver forum but I'm sure most of you considered other web
development software before you went with Dreamweaver. Of course
the answer is not as straight forward as just choosing one piece of
software over another. I understand that there isn't really one
piece of software that ticks every box for the web designer. What I
mean is that there isn't one standalone piece of software that's
best for web design (HTML, CSS etc.), graphics and animation etc.
and that's why we have things such as Adobe Creative Suite. Anyway,
sticking to web design and development in the Dreamweaver sense,
would I be correct to advise someone who wants to work in the field
of web design to use Dreamweaver as their main tool? Particularly,
I would be interested to know if Dreamweaver really is the industry
standard as it's important to consider future job prospects.
I hope you understand what I'm asking.
Thanks, in anticipation for your help.
P.S. Has anyone heard of Enterprise Works?

LOL... sure!
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> Hugs?
>
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> "P@tty Ayers ~ACE"
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>> Really? I've always thought that was what the web
development world meant
>> by "web design", in other words, the overall
process. After all, many of
>> us name our profession using those terms.
>>
>> But I can live with your point of view too. :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
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>>
>> "Murray *ACE*"
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>>> Seems to me that you are using the word in a
larger scope than is
>>> normally used in the web development world. But
I can live with it.
>>> And, I won't hold it against you.... 8)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Murray --- ICQ 71997575
>>> Adobe Community Expert
>>> (If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do
so!)
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>>>
>>>
>>> "P@tty Ayers ~ACE"
<[email protected]> wrote in
>>> message
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>>>>
>>>> "SnakEyez02"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> John, Murray's point, which I do agree
with is that you cannot
>>>>> "design" with
>>>>> Dreamweaver. Designing is where someone
comes up with the initial
>>>>> graphics for
>>>>> the website.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, but you're using the English word
"design" according to a limited,
>>>> secondary meaning. The word "design" has a
much wider meaning than just
>>>> "making graphics". As you can see from the
standard dictionary
>>>> definition I posted earlier, the primary
meaning of the word "design"
>>>> is "to create, fashion, execute, or
construct according to plan". Using
>>>> this most common meaning of the word,
Dreamweaver most definitely is
>>>> software whose purpose is accurately
described as "web design".
>>>>
>>>> It is true, of course, that Dreamweaver
doesn't create graphics. But
>>>> it's inaccurate to say that it doesn't
design web pages. You can easily
>>>> *design* web pages in Dreamweaver without
ever creating a single
>>>> graphic yourself.
>>>>
>>>> I'm just saying. :-)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Patty Ayers | www.WebDevBiz.com
>>>> Free Articles on the Business of Web
Development
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>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Dreamweaver cannot do the graphics
manipulation and it does not
>>>>> have the design tools that are available
in Fireworks and Photoshop.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dreamweaver can place the image slices
into a layout and use CSS for
>>>>> repeating-backgrounds and so forth, but
the process really starts in
>>>>> one of the
>>>>> mentioned applications. So what he is
trying to say is that the page
>>>>> is
>>>>> designed in Fireworks or Photoshop, but
then Dreamweaver turns that
>>>>> design into
>>>>> HTML for a working webpage.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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I have recently had to fire my web designer who was using iWeb. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get the site to open in iWeb on my new MacBook Pro. Is there a way?

I have recently had to fire my web designer who was using iWeb. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get the site to open in iWeb on my new MacBook Pro. Is there a way?

Firstly iWeb CAN'T IMPORT any kind of published html code as it has no import facility. You can however add html code, javascript and css by selecting the html snippet and placing it on your page the entering the code in here and clicking on Apply. You DO NOT create a shape as you say - you use the html snippet and place your code in there.
There are not really a lot of ways in which you can write code - if you want to enter small amounts of code, then you would use an ordinary text editor to do this such as Text Edit on a Mac or Text Wrangler. If you want to add code to iWeb like this, then you would either use the html snippet method in iWeb itself or you would have to publish the site to a local folder from iWeb and open the relevant html page with a text editor and add the additional code in this way and then publish. However, if he decided to add the code with a text editor, then you would have to upload the pages directly to the server using an ftp client - if you try to upload the site directly from iWeb, all the extra code will be overwritten.
As for checking whether the site was created using iWeb, all you need do is view the site in Safari and then click on View and then select View Source Code and it will tell you.
Even thoough extra code was added to the site and he might well have done this by publishing to a local folder and adding the code with a text editor, he should still have the domain file for the site too.
Ask again. I'm sure that for adding quick code, most would not want to use programmes such as Dreamweaver, but a simple text editor will suffice. As OT already said, if he claims that he does not have the domain.sites file, then try Flux 4 which is a web design programme and has full import facilities. At least this way, if he just gives you the published version of the site, you have some way of opening it.
You can download a free trial of Flux 4 and you can also purchase the full version from the Mac App Store if you decide you like it.

How can I transfer a site that was made in iWeb to a new web design service? Please tell me I don't have to build again from scratch!!

I have a site that I update for a large group of educators. It has years of info and pages and it was all created in iWeb. It's a great site and people rely on it! I found out that iWeb is going away and I need to find a way to keep updating this site asap. Help!!
PS: IMO Apple should be making a web design app that supports the continuation of sites built in iWeb AND has the ability to update them with all the design features that they claim iWeb isn't equipped to handle instead of throwing us all out on the street. If this does exist, and I don't know it, please, someone tell me!

You don't need to upgrade to Mt Lion to use iWeb 3. It works fine in Lion and Mt Lion. Read the following for use if iWeb in Lion and Mt Lion.
In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
To open your domain file in Lion or Mountain Lion or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
You can download an already compiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
Just launch the application, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
OT

New To Web Design, How To Get Started?

Just looking for some advice on what I need, I have used Dreamweaver before and have a little bit of web design experience (by little I mean not much at all!)
I was just wondering what other Adobe software I would need along side Dreamweaver to build and maintain a decent site, I basically want to know what other apps work alongside Dreamweaver to make the whole process run smoother and easier
Cheers for any help!

Hello,
Dreamwever is a good start for any web design project, also if you are doing the design side of things, Photoshop and Illustrator would be good additons to the toolbox for you web design projects.
Hope that helps,
Matt
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How many listen we have for creative suits Web-design? because i don't know how to install on my new pc! thank you for the answer!

How many listen we have for creative suits Web-design? because i don't know how to install on my new pc! thank you for the answer!

This is not a photography question. It is an application specific question, Please post in the Photoshop forum.
Photoshop General Discussion
Remember, you are not addressing Adobe here in the user forums. You are requesting help from volunteers users just like you who give their time free of charge. No one has any obligation to answer your questions.

I have new macbook pro retina and is there a web design format can use?

I have new macbook pro retina and is there a web design format can use?

I'm not understanding your question. I think you would use any of the current web design formats. Are you talking about what styles to use? If so see the css standards css1, css2, css3 to see what they can provide and which browsers are most compatible. If you are talking about languages use a current standard like html5, php, C#, visual basic , javascript, etc.
Be more specific about what you are asking.

ADOBE Dreamweaver Web Design Exam

Hi All
I have recently taken, and passed, two courses/exams in both Dreamweaver 8 and an Introduction to HTML.
Next year I would like to devote a lot of my time to building websites using the above skills that I have recently attained, however I would also like to attain an ADOBE Web Design Certificate but am unable to find out exactly what the exam will ask me. I guess I am after a rundown on what areas the official ADOBE course provides so that I know which areas to focus on in able to have a good chance during the exam.
Is anything able to provide me with a description and a full rundown of the ADOBE Web Design (Dreamweaver) course?
Thanking you

Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exams & prep-guides
http://www.adobe.com/support/certification/exams/
DW 8 is a legacy product (no longer supported).
You'll need to learn CS5 to take the Dreamweaver exam.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

Hello I am A web design student and I am new to this but I am stuck on my first site so here it is

Create an HTML document named ContactUs.html using the following elements:
An XML version element placed above t
he Document Type Definition (DTD)
o
version: 1.0
o
encoding: iso-8859-1
Document Type Declaration for XHTML 1.0 Frameset
<html> element
<head> element
o
containing a <title> element for:
Online News, Inc
CONTACT US
o
containing a <base> element with target: main_nav
<frameset> element in place of a <body> element with two rows
o
rows: 35, *
3.
Within the <frameset> element, create one <frame> element for the main navigation.
src: MainNav.html
scrolling: no
noresize: noresize
name: main_nav
4.
Within the <frameset>
element, nest a second <frameset> element with two columns.
cols: 150, *
5.
Within the nested <frameset> element, create two more <frame> elements for the left and right
columns.
The <frame> left column will be used for subnavigation.
o
src: SubNav.html
o
name: sub_nav
The <frame> right column will display the General Feedback form by default.
o
src: GenFeedback.html
o
name: form_area
6.
Below the nested <frameset> element, create a <noframes> element for browsers that do not
support frames. Within the <noframes> element
, place a body tag and the following text:
This site must be viewed by a browser supporting the "Frames" technology. Please
upgrade your browser to view this Web site.
So every time I follow these instructions my page is looking nothing like my instructors. What would be the right way to write this?

This site must be viewed by a browser supporting the "Frames" technology. Please
upgrade your browser to view this Web site.
This just underscores how woefully outdated the syllabus is. My advice is to do some online courses. At least you'll be learning how to build sites to modern standards.
HTML, CSS & Web Design Theory Tutorials -
http://www.html.net/
http://w3schools.com/
http://www.csstutorial.net/
http://phrogz.net/css/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/sessions/web-design-theory/
http://www.lynda.com (video training).
Nancy O.

New To Web Design Looking For Tutorials

Hi, I am looking for some help and I am hoping that one of you can help me. I am a total beginner, as in complete beginner. I am looking to do a certified web design course, but can anyone point me in the direction of some DWCS5 tutorials. Beginner ones though, would like to gain some experience at least before I start my course.
Thanks.

The very best advice I can offer a beginner is to put Dreamweaver away. First focus on learning HTML and CSS code. Without a working knowledge of code basics, DW has a steep learning curve. If you understand code fundamentals, DW is easy to figure out.
Start here:
HTML & CSS Tutorials - http://w3schools.com/
How to Develop with CSS?
http://phrogz.net/css/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html
Learn CSS positioning in 10 Steps
http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/
Best of luck,
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/

The first Ask a Pro for New Responsive Web Design tool, Reflow 2/22

The new Responsive Web Design tool – Reflow – is out.
When: Friday, February 22, 2013 – Noon Pacific Time. Session start time for other time zones are here: http://bit.ly/12D9ILL
Description: Edge Reflow preview has just been released and now is your chance to see all the ins and outs of this new tool, as well as how it integrates with other Edge tools and services. Join evangelist Paul Trani as he takes you through Reflow and workflows with other Edge tools and services when designing for the modern and mobile web.
Register here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=2008488&loc=en_us

The replay of this webinar is available OnDemand: http://seminars.adobeconnect.com/p2l90bhma2n/

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