Text links in Dreamweaver CS3

I have a grey line of text on a green background. When I add
a link to the text, it shows up a purpleish blue in any web
browser. I've checked Safari, Firefox, and Explorer. It changes the
color once a link is added. I am fairly new to using Dreamweaver,
so if anyone can help me out, that would be great. I know my page
properties links settings are all clear except for the grey text
color. I just want my text to stay grey once a link is added. Is
this a browser issue or a setting in Dreamweaver I can change?
Thanks,
CW

What you are seeing is the default color for links in those
browsers. To
customize this, search references on link pseudoclasses, to
which you
can apply CSS to change their visual presentation.
JMS

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Lines around type and other type/text problems in Dreamweaver CS3

Dear Dreamweaver forum:
Good news/bad news,
First the good news…
My thanks to a forum member by the name of Mylenium. With Mylenium's advice I have improved my halo problem by including a black background when I save type in Illustrator CS3 as part of importing it into Dreamweaver CS3.
However, the bad news, is that I’m still having type and text problems.
Problem area 1
Now, in Dreamweaver, I’m getting lines appearing around the type.
I am dragging and dropping the .gif type file into a Dreamweaver Div Tag.
How do I get rid of the lines around the type so that they do not show up in the Safari browser?
(Please see below)
Problem area 2
I cannot drag and drop text from a Word .doc file into a Dreamweaver div tag.
I also cannot copy and paste Word .doc text into a div tag.
How do I include text on my webpage without having to manually type it in?
(Please see below)
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
From within Dreamweaver CS3, how do I place text? Dragging and droppign the file does not work.
This is screenshot of what I see so far when I use Safari to test what I have made so far in Dreamweaver CS3.
I get lines around type.........not usually a good thing.........How do I fix it?
The way I created the portfolio type in IllustratorCS3 using the File > Save for Web and Devices. I then imported the resulting .gif file so that it was within my root folder within the Files panel within Dreamweaver CS3.
Am I doing this right?

Hi
The problems you are experiencing with the image text, (why are you using image text, these days?) is probably cause by the image having a border when created in illustrator, or the image size being set incorrectly.
As for the word text if you are using windows, see http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0/help.html?content=WSc78c5058ca073340dcda91 10b1f693f21-7ce6.html.
On the mac it is a little more complex, save your word doc as html, then apply the 'clean up word html files', (see - http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0/help.html?content=WSc78c5058ca073340dcda91 10b1f693f21-7ef5.html) copy the relevant text and mark-up from the word html file, and paste into your html document in the required position.
PZ
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External Links in Dreamweaver CS3?

I am new to web design and Dreamweaver and I cannot get
external links to work no matter what I do. I could not find any
instruction on how to do this on the web or in Adobe help files.
Whenever I make an external link, say for example I type
Google.com, it links to my my own site as if it were an internal
link to mysite.com/www.google.com. It is extremely frustrating so I
appreciate any help with solving this. I know it has to be
something so ridiculously simple that no one even though of posting
how to do it but nonetheless I need help! Thanks again.

You need to specify the protocol for the link, e.g.,
http://www.google.com
which will produce code that looks like this -
<a href=''
http://www.google.com">Google
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>I am new to web design and Dreamweaver and I cannot get
external links to
>work
> no matter what I do. I could not find any instruction on
how to do this
> on the
> web or in Adobe help files. Whenever I make an external
link, say for
> example
> I type Google.com, it links to my my own site as if it
were an internal
> link to
> mysite.com/www.google.com. It is extremely frustrating
so I appreciate
> any
> help with solving this. I know it has to be something so
ridiculously
> simple
> that no one even though of posting how to do it but
nonetheless I need
> help!
> Thanks again.
>

Links Problem in Dreamweaver CS3 !

I recently reinstalled my Dreamweaver CS3. Now everytime i save a file, it saves the whole directory path with the file name. So when i opened my index page and saved it with some changes, all my css tables have been lost. and all the links in the file are relative to my system directory.
BEFORE, it was index.html
AFTER SAVE, it is "C:\Documents and Settings\Idiot User\index.html"
this has happened to EACH link that i used in my page, so even the css stylesheet is not working.
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also when i change the links, image locations to the File-only, and remove the directory bit, the images disappear in dreamweaver.
Everything was working perfectly, until i re-installed the program. Can anyone suggest a way in which every file and every link is synced; so it is what it says it is WYSIWYG !

i do NOT think that it is a helpful answer .
You may not think so, but it sounds like a very plausible explanation and a mighty good place to start looking.
In your site definition settings, are your links relative to Document or Site Root?
Which operating system are you using?
Did you get all the latest updates for CS3 since re-installing?
Nancy O.
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Problems occuring in dreamweaver cs3 when inputing text/images

Hi All
I am having troubles with my version of Adobe dreamweaver cs3. I am creating a newsletter and have my stemplate all layed out, but everytime i go to paste text from a word doc my table goes wrong. My pixle width is 650 it then increases when adding the information. I have also been having trouble with inserting pictures, i want some aligned left and some right. Everything is ok on screen in dreamweaver but when i go to view it on the web the pictures do not align the way i want them to. The colums also have a mind of there own and seem to constantly need me to retype their width value.
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Is there a setting somewhere that i have missed that might be causing it to do these things?
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> on some scripts dreamweaver crashes when I select any
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Hi everyone,
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All the links to download DREAMWEAVER CS3 Creative Suite are not working. How can I download the file ? I have a serial number of a purchased software.

They work just fine. whatever issues you have are specific, but without proper system info, browser info and other details nobody can even begin to guess.
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I am having trouble with links relative to site root when I
work on my localhost with Dreamweaver CS3.
I am building a site with PHP, MySQL using the WAMP server. I
have a page ( www.site.com/index.php ) that I want to copy to
sub-directories (e.g. www.site.com/about/index.php ) so I want to
make the copying as painless as possible by using site root
relative links (e.g. /about/index.php ). It works on the internet
but NOT on localhost.
Why is this? What can be done? Is there a fix if this is a
bug? This seems like such a simple thing but it is such a
problem.

> Why is this?
Because when your (local) webserver see's that you are
directing it to the
ROOT, it goes to ITS root, not the website's root (e.g.,
htdocs or Inetpub).
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>I am having trouble with links relative to site root when
I work on my
> localhost with Dreamweaver CS3.
>
> I am building a site with PHP, MySQL using the WAMP
server. I have a page
> (
> www.site.com/index.php ) that I want to copy to
sub-directories (e.g.
> www.site.com/about/index.php ) so I want to make the
copying as painless
> as
> possible by using site root relative links (e.g.
/about/index.php ). It
> works
> on the internet but NOT on localhost.
>
> Why is this? What can be done? Is there a fix if this is
a bug? This
> seems
> like such a simple thing but it is such a problem.
>

How do you add text to an image in dreamweaver cs3?

does anyone know how to add text to an image in dreamweaver cs3? someone help me im stuck

Hello,
pardon, your question is still formulated in too general manner, for me at least, because there are several possibilities for these things. Please take a look on Nancy O.'s templates and tutorials, for example here:
http://alt-web.com/TEMPLATES/CSS-Semi-liq-photo-sheet.shtml
http://alt-web.com/TEMPLATES/Dark-Grid-II.shtml
http://alt-web.com/DEMOS/CSS-Clickable-Table-Cells.shtml and not to forget:
http://alt-web.com/DEMOS/CSS-Sold-Out-Text-over-image.shtml
you will come away with many ideas and suggestions about adding text to an image.
Wish you a joyful "poking around"!
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Broken Flash Video link - Dreamweaver CS3

I'm using a Mac G-5, PPC, Dreamweaver CS3
I cannot get FLV videos to show up on webpages. I've never had this prob before. (I currently have pages online which play their vids fine and were produced the same way I'm working it now.) I insert the video onto the page as usual, make the setting for "progressive download", "detect size", etc in the dialog box and hit OK. The video shows on my page in Dreamwvr as a Flash Vid but after saving and testing in a browser nothing shows up in 3 different browsers. I tested the page in Firefox, Netscape and Flock and nothing shows. In Opera the video player shows but will not play. In Safari it plays fine! In Dreamweaver, in the "assets" window, when I select any of the 4 FLV's there, I get the broken link icon (jigsaw puzzle piece) showing in the window yet the vids reside in the same place they've always resided.
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Can anyone help?
Thanks

These forums are for discussion of issues about the suites, not specific products. If you have a question about an individual application such as Photoshop or InDesign, please post in that forum.
This will help ensure that you will get the best response.
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Any reason you're specifically trying to obtain CS3?
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Dreamweaver CS3 "Check Links Sitewide" not working

(Windows XP SP2)
I am trying to use Dreamweaver CS3's "Check Links Sitewide" feature. It stops after processing some number of files, without any error message or crash. When I hover my mouse over Dreamweaver, it changes into the hourglass, which indicates that Dreamweaver thinks it is still working. I've left it running for over an hour and it still makes no progress. When I check the Task Manager, it says Dreamweaver is not responding.
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regards,
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Remote Rollover in Dreamweaver CS3

I want to do something like the effect achieved with the "who" and "why" buttons on this site - http://voicubojan.com/. I'm not sure what to call this to know how to search for how to do it. I have Dreamweaver CS3 and WindowsXP. Thanks for any help.
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Dreamweaver CS3 to CS4 Changes

Changes in Dreamwever CS3 to CS4
Creating a text box over a photo.
I have been using a technique in CS3 learned from
"totaltraining.com"
I could take a photo into photoshop and slice it into areas
where I want to create a text block and use the photoshop save to
web application to write the html code and create the images. then
I open the html file in Dreamweaver CS3 and select the sliced block
image that I want to add text on top of and copy the link
information, Then Delete the image and add the hight measurement to
keep the space from shifting then paste the link information into
the box background in the control pallet at the bottom. Then insert
text on top of the background image. This gives me the ability to
use the page properties to add a over all background color or image
and still have a text box with the photo behind it.
The problem is that with new Dreamweaver CS4 I can not find
where to paste the link information. The control pallet has changed
and I can not find out how to add the image back into the cell as a
background. I have tried to just place the image into the cell but
everything shifts.
I know their is probably a better way to do this I am just
learning and trying to figure this out so any advice would be
helpful.
I would just use Dreamweaver3 but the demo I was working on
expired and I bought the CS4 package.
I have a website 80% finished and now I'm stuck.
Thanks, Curtis

Things that you 'used to be able to do but cannot in CS4' are
generally
things that you should never have done in the first place. A
big thrust of
CS4 is to remove things from DW that created invalid or
non-best practice
HTML. This method certainly sounds like a good candidate -
for example:
> use the photoshop save to web application to write the
> html code
This is a very bad idea. Such code is fragile beyond
expectation. One
should only use a graphics app to write HTML that is to be
used for
prototyping, not for production.
> Then Delete the image and add the hight measurement to
> keep the space from shifting
This is a very bad idea. Placing text into a region that is
vertically
constrained is like placing a timebomb in your code. What
happens with the
visitor makes the text larger to read more comfortably?
Blammo....
> Then insert text on top of the background image.
Bad idea for the same reason.
> The problem is that with new Dreamweaver CS4 I can not
find where to paste
> the
> link information. The control pallet has changed and I
can not find out
> add the
> image back to the cell as a background.
There are now two buttons on the Property inspector: HTML and
CSS. Click
the HTML one.
> I have tried to just place the image into the cell but
everything shifts.
Which is why you should never use "wizard" HTML.
> I know their is probably a better way to do this I am
just learning and
> trying
> to figure this out so any advice would be helpful.
Really? OK - just put DW down and go here -
http://www.w3schools.com - to
learn HTML and CSS. When you can understand this -
http://apptools.com/examples/pagelayout101.php
then you will be ready to come back to DW. Trying to use DW
without a fair
understanding of HTML and CSS is like being beat with a
broomstick!
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"Curtis02" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> Changes in Dreamwever CS3 to CS4
>
> Creating a text box over a photo.
>
> I have been using a technique in CS3 learned from
"totaltraining.com"
> I could take a photo into photoshop and slice it into
areas where I want
> to
> create a text block and use the photoshop save to web
application to write
> the
> html code and create the images. then I open the html
file in Dreamweaver
> CS3
> and select the sliced block image that I want to add
text on top of and
> copy
> the link information, Then Delete the image and add the
hight measurement
> to
> keep the space from shifting then paste the link
information into the box
> background in the control pallet at the bottom. Then
insert text on top of
> the
> background image. This gives me the ability to use the
page properties to
> add a
> over all background color or image and still have a text
box with the
> photo
> behind it.
>
> The problem is that with new Dreamweaver CS4 I can not
find where to paste
> the
> link information. The control pallet has changed and I
can not find out
> add the
> image back to the cell as a background. I have tried to
just place the
> image
> into the cell but everything shifts.
>
> I know their is probably a better way to do this I am
just learning and
> trying
> to figure this out so any advice would be helpful.
> I would just use Dreamweaver3 but the demo I was working
on expired and I
> bought the CS4 package.
>
> I have a website 80% finished and now I'm stuck.
>
> Thanks, Curtis
>

Centering a flash movie within Dreamweaver cs3 on Y axis

I have published a movie in Flash cs3 which has generated an html document however the Flash movie is not automatically centered I have attempted to centrally align the movie within Dreamweaver cs3 by adding:
<center> after the opening body tag and </center> befor the closing body tag
This method has centered on the X axis but not the Y axis
I would have put in a table or a div tag, but when I open the html doc in Dreamweaver I have no visible repressentation of the Flash movie in the design view as I would have if I had created an html document from scratch and draged the movie onto the page, all I can see is the "get flash" hypertext and some other text. I did actually experiment by creating a div tag and dragged my movie into it but ended up with two movies one sitting on top of the other when I ran it in a browser lol. I'm quite intimdated by code and much prefer to work in the design view (wysiwyg and all that) which is quite restricting.
Any advice for centering on the Y axis would be much apreciated, Thanks in advance, Dave

I don't believe there is code to prevent this from happening
on a client computer. The default is enabled my Microsoft, what
should happen is a yellow bar should appear at the top of the
browser which will allow you view the content.
What might work is to use a program called Zinc by a company
call Multidmedia Limited www.multidmedia.com. Search the site for
samples, one of the samples is a Flash Browser this will run Flash
a browser that you can use. You will need to change the URL a bit
in the Flash code but it's very clear on how to do this.
What this will do is run your web site in a Flash browser I
did a quick test and I did not get any errors. The program will
create an EXE file. I also believe they have a MAC version if you
need one. With a simple "Autorun" call on the CD-ROM you could have
this up and running in not time.
Just be careful of how you call the pages. Since the web site
is not running from a Web server you need to make sure that your
links are local and not Site Root. The best way to test is to
disconnect your computer from your internet and see how it runs.
You want the CD to be self-contained and not have to get content
from the web (your end user may be on a laptop and not connected).
Good Luck

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