Web Design

Dreamweaver CS4

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

For those Dreamweaver lovers out there, you will be pleased to know that Adobe have released a beta version of Dreamweaver CS4.
Packed with new features, a lot centred around making your interface being easier to drive and finding the things you normally use quicker.
There will be better Photoshop integration, CSS improvements, code hints for Javascript […]

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

A great talk on simplicity in design. Very worthwhile.

IEDevToolbar - Internet Explorer Development Toolbar

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Ok, they didn’t come up with the idea, but who cares? FireFox developers have been seeing this feature for a while now and provides some great insight into the construction of web pages.
The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (IEDevToolbar) is a great addition to Internet Explorer (compatible with versions 6 & 7). The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar […]

MD Web Hosting

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

A couple of quotes I have seen so many times it’s not funny anymore! I’m sure MD webhosting are aware of the widespread hosting community unhappiness.
“I have submitted tickets, seperate emails and all manner of tried communications but to no avail.”
“not happy”
If this sounds like you, then by all means, seek another hosting provider. I […]

New iMac

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

This is my new machine….I like it.
http://www.apple.com/imac/design.html

CSS Font Sizes

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

When using CSS to set font sizes and spacing, you can use the following shorthand code to achieve it.
font: 90%/175% ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
Changing the 90% will change the text size, while changing the 175% will change the text spacing.
Happy CSS’ing!

.ASIA Domain Names!

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Check it out!

eBay Interface ‘Buggy’

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Is it just me or is the new eBay interface for sellers buggy?
Tried using IE, Firefox and Safari and all produce plenty of errors.

FreeTextBox Alternative: FCKeditor!

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

For those struggling with the bug-ridden FreeTextBox, check out FCKeditor.
It’s much nicer

Dreamweaver Developer Toolbox Useless For ASP.Net

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

For ASP.Net developers using Dreamweaver and wondering if the new Adobe Dreamweaver Developer Toolbox is worth the $299 USD price tag, this may be of interest - this set of server behaviours and commands does not provide anything for ASP.Net.
On the other hand, if you are a developer using PHP, ColdFusion or ASP (VBScript), then […]

Dreamweaver Bug Fix: dwscripts is not defined

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

This sounds bad, but really it isn’t. There is quite a simple fix available straight from the source, Adobe.
You may also receive an error describing something along the lines of “the following translators were not loaded due to errors”.
This link will help you out - gives a lot of detail.

Happy new year!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Happy new year to everybody!!!

Windows Vista Home Premium

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

For those considering upgrading to Vista, here is my experience with it so far.
I recently purchased a new laptop. I had it for 1 day! Issues were:

Apparently not having permissions (despite being the only user and the administrator) to turn of windows services or disable services at startup (using msconfig) - it all seems to […]

Dreamweaver Help Crashes

Friday, November 16th, 2007

A common problem with Dreamweaver 8 is Dreamweaver crashes when accessing the help system when you have Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 installed.
Adobe have a TechNote on how to resolve the issue. Dreamweaver TechNote
Cheers

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Shortcuts

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Yes, I am a big fan of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. One reason why is the ability to export all your shortcuts to a neatly formatted (yep, uses tables!) HTML document for printing and displaying a handy place or simply filing on your computer somewhere for quick reference. You can even format it to look pretty […]

WordPress AdRotator

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

The AdRotator plugin for WordPress is so simple, yet quite effective. Did I mention free? That got your attention!
You can get it on the Taragana blog.

Dreamweaver Tip #1

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Set up your web site as a ’site’ in Dreamweaver.
To do this, you need to follow a few simple steps.

Open Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Click the ‘Site’ menu item
Click ‘New Site’
The Basic tab is sufficient for most web sites, except if you are developing in ASP, PHP, etc. Select the ‘Basic’ tab
Type your site name (this can […]

Dreamweaver 8 Shortcuts and Tools Part 2

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Following up from the previous post, I thought I should share some more top-secret information about Dreamweaver. Well, here goes.
You can view and customise the existing shortcuts in Dreamweaver or if you want, you can simply add you own. All this can be done in Keyboard Shortcuts dialogue box. To access, simply:

Click “Edit” in the […]

Dreamweaver 8 Shortcuts and Tools

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

A few simple Dreamweaver 8 shortcuts and tools that one cannot be without are:

“Ctrl+G” : Go To Line Number - works great for developers with thousands of lines of code and want to go to a particular line of code in an instant.
“Ctrl-F” : Find and Replace - Not really a hard one to find, […]