Web design program

Hello-
I'm looking for help in finding the best web design program. I have no experience with the programming end of things, but I can design. I designed my site (www.silverboxcreative.com) in photoshop, and them gave it to a programmer to upload to the internet. I also played around with iweb. I think it's fine, but I have a feeling it will eventually have some limitations. Basically, I want freedom to change text when I need to, or upload some new info easily. I don't want to have to rely on sending any photoshop files to a programmer. Not sure I'm ready for a program that is so intense, but maybe something a little more upscale than iweb. Help?
Susan

Perhaps the "something a little more upscale than iWeb" will be iWeb 2.0 coming soon in iLife'07. Consider holding off on a decision about other software until you've seen how Apple has improved iWeb during the past year.
Some rumours about iWeb 2.0 are here...
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0608iweb2.html
And here...
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0608iweb2-2.html
MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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When I click on the link I just gave you, this is what I see:
Your last message was ambiguous about whether you had actually talked to Web Chat.
I've been told that Web Chat is handled from the US time zones so if you're in a different part of the world, you may have to accommodate that.
Serial number issues cannot be handled in a forum because (obviously), you're communicating a serial number which would be broadcast to the entire internet. Also, few Adobe employees are on most of the forums. There are NO Adobe employees on this forum.

Is there an alternative web design program to Adobe Muse that accepts .psd files?

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Slicing was really designed for web use. Though I suppose it has other uses.
What you can do is move each part of the image to its own layer. Then in File>Scripts is a command to export all layers to files. Or if you have photoshop CC you can name each layer a filename with extension to generate individual images.

Good web design software to replace iWeb

Hello There,
I have been using iWeb for a while now, and despite its limitations, I like it. Now that Apple has discontinued (or will discontinue) MobileMe and some of the features wont be available any more, I decided to move to another web-design program.
I have downloaded the trial of rapidweaver (the one with the 3 page limit) so I could play with it and see what it was like. It is HORRIBLE, it is not easy to use, importing pictures seems pretty impossible. I cant insert pictures like I can in iWeb, I cant drag things around like I can in iWeb - the whole program seems to be template and text based.
I don't really know how to do coding or anything, so I am not looking for a fancy web-design tool that costs a fortune. But I want something that I can actually use. I want to do the following;
Create pages from scratch if I want to
Insert images and reposition them
Insert images into my text and aline them
Have a blog
Have a photo gallery
insert movies (when I want to share them)
have a chat room
Have a nice looking site without having to do any serious heavy coding (because I don't really know how to)
Can someone please suggest to me a good website design program that is comparable to iWeb and with which I can replace the afore mentioned iWeb. Eervyone says RapidWeaver, but I really didnt like it.

Just to promote iWeb for a bit more read the following in case you hadn't considered it:
As you now know iWeb and iDVD have been discontinued by Apple. This is evidenced by the fact that new Macs are shipping with iLife 11 installed but without iWeb and iDVD.
On June 30, 2012 MobileMe will be shutdown. HOWEVER, iWeb will still continue to work but without the following:
Features No Longer Available Once MobileMe is Discontinued:
◼ Password protection
◼ Blog and photo comments
◼ Blog search
◼ Hit counter
◼ MobileMe Gallery
Currently if the site is published directly from iWeb to the 3rd party server the RSS feed and slideshow subscription features will work. However, if the site is first published to a folder on the hard drive and then uploaded to the sever with a 3rd party FTP client those two features will be broken.
All of these features can be replaced with 3rd party options.
There's another problem and that's with iWeb's popup slideshows. Once the MMe servers are no longer online the popup slideshow buttons will not display their images.
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However, Roddy McKay and I have figured out a way to modify existing sites with those slideshows and iWeb itself so that those images will display as expected once MobileMe servers are gone. How to is described in this tutorial: iW14 - Modify iWeb So Popup Slideshows Will Work After MobileMe is Discontinued.
NOTE: the iLife 11 boxed version Is no longer available at the online Apple Store. To get a copy you'll have to try Amazon.com or eBay.com.
Now that being said there's been a lot of discussion on replacements to iWeb. Most of the applications are template driven and make it difficult to start with a clean page. Roddy has more experience in evalutating those apps. I decided on Flux. It's a drag and drop, WYSIWYG application with easy code insertion. If you've ever added a 3rd party slideshow to an iWeb page with an HTML snippet you can view this Flux tutorial page on how I did it with Flux: F03 - Adding a SimpleViewer Slideshow to a Web Page or this tutorial on adding a multi page PDF document to a web page: F02 - Adding a PDF Document to a Web Page.
I have to admit it takes a little study but the video tutorials at the Flux site and those 3rd party videos on YouTube help quite a bit.
If you search this community for "iWeb alternatives" you should get a list of topics discussing the other alternatives.
OT

PC web design

Greetings,
I hate to say it but I need to find an iWeb-easy program for the PC world. I am forced to use PCs at school, thanks to a wonderful donation.
We have been using Frontpage but I find it to be very confusing and hard to use. Is there a PC web design program that is easy like iWeb? Simple and easy to use in terms of interface and output.
Thanks!

Unfortunately i don't think there is. I've even asked around here at work and no one is aware of one that compares to iWeb.
It's not to say there isn't 100% but certainly must be an obscure one.
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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....

Keyboard not working in Google Web Designer

I just installed google web designer from AUR. ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-webdesigner/ )
And I have the weirdest problem, the keyboard seems to stop working in the program somehow the keyboard does work after launch, but it seems to stop working after I use the mouse or something similar.
As an example, after launch I can press Ctrl+N for "new file" and then press tab until I get to the name field, and type all I want.
I can repeat this, press Ctrl+N and then click the name field, and the keyboard stops working. I can then close the window and press Ctrl+N again, but this time the window won't open (i.e. keyboard input is completely dead to the program). Below is all the terminal output I get when I launch the program, by the looks of it nothing seems suspicious in relation to this issue.
$ google-webdesigner
[0331/215852:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(161)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSUIDSandboxDevelopment for more information on developing with the sandbox on.
which: no google-chrome in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
which: no firefox in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
which: no opera in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
[0331/215853:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(227)] Running without renderer sandbox
Does this happen to anybody else? Anyone got a clue what might be up?
My Desktop environment is a pretty basic LXDE setup, and my keyboard is Razer Blackwidow, Mouse is a basic 5 button logitech mouse, I've never had any problems whatsoever with it.I am running on the evdev input driver (latest version of libinput crashes xorg if this keyboard is present and I try to use it) I have confirmed however that this issue is not specific to my keyboard (I tried another generic keyboard, it gave the same results)
Last edited by rabcor (2015-03-31 22:24:46)

Hello, I am maintaner of the AUR package, I tried right now, and I dont have any described problems you have. And honestly I have no idea how to help you.
I have tested GWD under Xfce4.12 and Openbox, and no issues, like this.
You may try here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gwdbeta to get to the bottom of it, if no luck here.
Last edited by jvb (2015-04-01 06:50:26)

Hey guys, I have a question about Web Design

I have been trying to learn webdesign for a few months now, and so far, I am still learning HTML and some CSS. At the moment, my experience is still very thin, I am struggling with things, and I only know how to create simple, static pages. For example I still don't know how to produce "clean code". Or how one determines just how "clean" the code he has produced really is.
I was wondering if someone could answer a few questions I have:
I am still not sure how I will know when I am competent enough to work in Web Design... What are the best signs that an individual is good enough?
I was also wondering what programming language I need to know to do the following:
Create a WORKING Site Search. One like the search bar in the top corner of this page that will return search results from your website... Do I need to know how to program PHP? I've heard that you do need PHP to do this? The same goes for creating e-mail forms, and other forms like this. Do I need PHP for this?
Another thing is CMS systems like Wordpress and Joomla. What is the reason for using these as opposed to just designing a website's pages in Dreamweaver, and then uploading them via FTP to your web server?
And finally, can someone explain to me why CSS is groped like this when it is coded? Why has the Div ID "OuterWrapper" been styled multiple times?
For example: #outerWrapper #feature {
#outerWrapper #subcontentWrapper {
#outerWrapper #subcontentWrapper #rightColumn {
^ Couldnt the designer simply have styled "~OuterWrapper" once and left it at that?
Please see below:
#outerWrapper #feature {
    height: 225px;
    width: 880px;
    margin-left: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
    background-image: url(images/feature.jpg);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: center top;
#outerWrapper #subcontentWrapper {
    padding-right: 15px;
    padding-left: 15px;
    clear: both;
    padding-top: 20px;
    background-color: #FFF;
    padding-bottom: 40px;
    border-top-width: 4px;
    border-right-width: 4px;
    border-left-width: 4px;
    border-top-style: solid;
    border-right-style: solid;
    border-left-style: solid;
    border-top-color: #F90;
    border-right-color: #F90;
    border-left-color: #F90;
    background-image: url(images/footer-fade.jpg);
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    background-position: bottom;
    height: 100%;
#outerWrapper #subcontentWrapper #rightColumn {
    float: right;
    width: 220px;
    background-color: #DBE7FB;
    border: 1px solid #DCDFE4;
    margin-bottom: 15px;
Also, regarding Javascript: How exactly does one become proficient enough to learn scripting for the thousands of little widgets, and navigation bars, and other functions that Javascript can do out there?
I know a lot of these questions are strange and may be hard to answer, but I am really hoping some of you guys can provide some helpful advice/direction for me to improve with code. I studied as a Print Graphic Designer, and now it's really hurting me in this economy trying to find a job due to the fact that I lack full competency in Web Design... and the longer it takes me to get better at this, the slimmer my chances become at finding work!
I really need help on this, so I would be extremely grateful for detailed and informative answers. Perhaps some links to very good video tutorials on learning how to effectively design webpages - Common things like Javascripted navigation bars, image slideshows, how to design working site search forms and contact forms, and how to use Wordpress. I ask this because there are so many terrbile tutorial videos out there (I know from experience) and it is next to impossible for myself, a beginner, to tell the good ones from the bad.
Thankyou guys.

CMS's like WordPress, Joomla! & Drupal are popular open source (PHP & MySql) frameworks. They contain all the backend PHP code needed to create a dynamic web site that contains capability for advanced functions: site search, on-line editing, shopping carts, member log-in sites, blogs with comments, scripted contact forms, and so much more...
The allure of Open Source frameworks is that they save developers time and money. Instead of building everything from scratch (which can take months), an experienced developer can usually install WordPress on the client's server and be up & running in a few hours without customizations, or in a couple of weeks with customizations.   A firm understanding of PHP, how to set up a server-side database, backing up MySql, CSS theming, and HTML code are required skills to work with these frameworks. WordPress is probably the easiest to set-up; Drupal is for more experienced coders.
I am still not sure how I will know when I am competent enough to work in Web Design... What are the best signs that an individual is good enough?
You're ready when you can look at code and understand what it means/does. Being able to problem solve, identify mistakes and fix them on your own is a must have skill.
Code Tutorials - http://w3schools.com/
How to Develop with CSS?
http://phrogz.net/css/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html
CSS positioning in 10 Steps
http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/
Code Validation Tools
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
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Problem Installing Adobe CS 5.5 Web Design Premium, Error Code 6

I just purchased Adobe CS 5.5 Web Design Premium. I've attempted installing it about a half dozen times now, maybe more. I am getting variations of "Error Code 6".
I have been through steps 1-3 of this page: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/errors-exit-code-6-exit.html but it hasn't helped (the error log is slightly different, but that's about it).
I have attempted to look at the descriptions, but many of the errors in my log summary were not on the list of errors here: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/installation-launch-log-errors-creative.html - however of the ones that were, I found this entry:
DF012 Installation source path does not exist: <path>
The installation files are corrupted.
Reextract or copy the contents of the installer.
Which is discouraging and confusing to me, as I have tried installation both from my new, just opened CDs and by downloading the installation files from here: http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs5-5-direct-download-links.html.
I'm not sure what my next step should be to try.
Here's the log information (I deleted a lot of the space between lines (paragraph marks), if that is somehow important, I can paste it here without conserving space):
Exit Code: 6
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 4 error(s), 8 warning(s)
----------- Payload: {CFA46C39-C539-4BE9-9364-495003C714AD} Adobe SwitchBoard 2.0 2.0.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF029: ARKServiceControl::StartService: Service not started/stopped SwitchBoard. Current State: 0 Exit Code: 0 Service Specific Exit Code: 0(Seq 1)
----------- Payload: {2EE4F060-CEE6-4002-AA8B-91B791541767} Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF035: CreateAlias:Icon file does not exist at C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Utilities - CS5.5\Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6\windows\pb_app.icofile:\\\C:\PIXELB~1\source\winwood\Staging 0X1.AE9C02P-1022rea\windows\pb_app.ico42178f80493091e8e552c84a2897e9da68fce32_32_f8049309 1e8e552c84a2897e9da68fce for icon C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Adobe Web Premium CS5.5\Adobe Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6.lnk with target C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Utilities - CS5.5\Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6\Pixel Bender Toolkit.exe(Seq 89)
----------- Payload: {7202D4A7-F7E6-4e7a-B77D-7B1C4E8B5CA6} Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX 10.0.0.0 -----------
ERROR: Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action NewCustomAction1, location: C:\Users\jlp\AppData\Local\Temp\InstallAX.exe, command: -install activex -msi
ERROR: Install MSI payload failed with error: 1603 - Fatal error during installation.
MSI Error message: Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action NewCustomAction1, location: C:\Users\jlp\AppData\Local\Temp\InstallAX.exe, command: -install activex -msi
----------- Payload: {47CE893F-A0FF-4094-AA16-5209AEA7C7E0} Firefox Plugin CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-FFPlugin\OEM(Seq 32)
----------- Payload: {208DE3D5-541C-41B0-8595-7A608A6E4306} IE Plugin CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-IEPlugin\OEM(Seq 26)
----------- Payload: {4A4F91EA-5951-4C5C-B911-027D802817EB} Office Plugin CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-OfficePlugin\OEM(Seq 34)
----------- Payload: {DD309051-FACF-4A5E-87F1-C57154BB3DE8} Adobe Contribute CS5.1 6.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeContribute6.1-mul\OEM(Seq 8283)
----------- Payload: {8DADF070-FE60-4899-8EF0-4242E7702F7D} Adobe Fireworks CS5.1 11.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeFireworks11.1.0All\OEM(Seq 1215)
----------- Payload: {1C9D6B02-8B92-4E40-8B22-37D8C95430F0} Adobe Fireworks CS5.1_AdobeFireworks11.1.0en_USLanguagePack 11.1.0.0 -----------
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at E:\Adobe CS5_5\payloads\AdobeFireworks11.1.0en_USLanguagePack\OEM(Seq 74)
ERROR: DW050: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR: DW050: - Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX: Install failed
Note: references to Drive E are reference to my CD/DVD Drive. I am installing to my C drive and also have a 2nd hard disk D, which shouldn't be involved in the installation.
Also, this is a student edition, but as I've verified myself with Adobe and received my licence key, that shouldn't cause problems as far as I can tell.
My computer is running Windows 7 64-bit. Not sure if there's any other information that is useful in solving this issue.
Thanks for your help!

_Forge_ there a couple different technical documents relevant to the errors you are currently experiencing. I would recommend reviewing Error "1721 [or 1722]: There is a problem with this...package" when installing | CS4 | Windows - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-1721-or-1722-problem.html and Error 1603 | Install | CS5 products - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-1603-install-cs5-products.html.

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
Nadia
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Can't open Reader V9. Says part of suite (CS4 Web Design), need to open other module. but getting error message 148.3

I'm running Windows 8.1. I had to create a new account identity because of some corrupted files. Now I can't open Reader V9. Message comes up saying it's part of a Suite (CS4 Web Design) and I need to open other module first. I tried opening Dreamweaver, got error message 148.3 and program closes, says to contact customer support. My CS4 Seb design suite is old and I've since gotten PS Extended CS5 and PS Extended CS6, but not a whole Suite. Perhaps the license needs to be re-entered but the program closes before I can do anything. Please advise.

What is your operating system? Can you post a screenshot of that message: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1070933
I also think you should use a newer Reader version on Windows 8.x, i.e. 10.1.10 or 11.0.07.

Is Web Design Part of a Government Experiment?

Is Web Design part of a government experiment to see what it takes to drive a person crazy? I did a simple Flash portfolio for my business website that has some simple go-to-frame interactivity via code snippets. Everything was fine until I looked at it in Firefox. Firefox indicated an ActionScript error, rendering some buttons inoperative. Flash didn't indicate any errors. I tore apart the FLA for a few hours and determined that the error would occur only when buttons would go to a blank keyframe where the instance no longer existed. I determined that no more time should be spent troubleshooting this, so I removed some of the offending interactivity and moved the obnoxious FLA files to another folder. I uploaded the new swf with the reduced interactivity for my site and the next day just for kicks, I re-opened the original offending FLA and publish-previewed it. This time in Firefox there were no errors!!!. So... I reworked this file, gave it some refined interactivity that is better than the original one that gave the ActionScript errors. Now everything is uploaded and dandy, but I'm still scratching my head wondering what happened.

Hi
When you click on New -> web intelligence document -> It should display list of all the available universes -> Select any one among them.
You can choose efashion universe which is a sample universe that comes with BusinessObjects Enterprise installation.
If you are not getting anything in the list of universes, then probably the samples were not installed properly.
You can check if you have any sample universe on the machine or not. Open the drive where you have installed and you get the installed list of sample universes in the below path:
BusinessObjects\Program Files\BusinessObjects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11\Samples\en\Universes
Hope this helps!!
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Sourashree

Where is the CS5.5 to CS6 Web Design Premium upgrade download link?!

I purchased the CS5.5 Web Design Premium equivalent to avail of the free upgrade to CS6 when it came out.
After too much fluffing around with Adobe's customer services (weeks upon weeks), I eventually received the upgrade disk through the post (I'm based in the UK).
The problem I now have is that this disk has become scratched and I can't wait to receive another disk.
After speaking with someone through the online chat, I was told that only those who purchased an online copy could download it. As I purchased directly through Adobe over the phone, I was not entitled to an auto-generated download link.
The upgrade also doesn't appear in my Product pages.
So, can someone please help to find out where I can download a copy of the upgrade, rather than wait for it to come through in the post?

As long as you have the serial numbers for the upgrade version and the base version(CS6 and CS5.5 respectively in your case) the programs will install fine. Download the trial version from www.adobe.com/downloads/ and install the software. During installation you may be asked for the CS5.5 serial number(after you enter your CS6 serial number). The installer file or setup.exe file is the same on the disks and on Adobe.com.
Thanks
Nikhil

What web design software is equivalent to dvd studio pro?

is there a program that someone uses thats functionality is based on dvd studio pro?

That's an odd question.
Web design is vastly different to DVD authoring - chalk and cheese, really. If you are after a web development platform that allows events to happen on a timeline basis, then Dreamweaver will do this. It also allows for navigational links to be set up that go to any part of a web site.
But then, so do most web development environments worth looking at... what exactly is it that you are after?

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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"Jeff" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:gib8h5$sn7$[email protected]..
>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.....
>>
>
>

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