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Quick Panels and Menu Bars from Dreamweaver's Spry Widgets: Dec 28, 2007; David Karlins unveils Dreamweaver CS3's new secret weapon: Spry widgets. With these powerful quick-creation devices, you can whip up tabbed pages or menu bars in your web pages in a snap.

Mastering Vector Design: Drawing with Illustrator Paintbrushes: Dec 21, 2007; David Karlins explores the multi-varied world of Adobe Illustrator's Paintbrush tool, showing how to customize the built-in brushes and even create unique and eye-catching new strokes of your own.

Step-by-Step: How to Create Tables in Dreamweaver CS3: Jul 13, 2007; Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) provide a powerful and flexible approach to creating columnar tables in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.

The Next Level: Creating an Inline Random Graphic in Dreamweaver CS3: Jul 13, 2007; Spice up your Web pages with the easy-to-use Dreamweaver CS3!

Adding Text To Your Web Pages in Dreamweaver CS3: Jun 22, 2007; The main message of most Web sites is conveyed by the site's text, and a major part of your job in working with any site will be adding, modifying, and styling that text. Dreamweaver gives you the tools you need to effectively put text on your pages and get your message across. In this chapter, you'll learn how to get text onto your page and apply structure using headings and lists. You'll also learn how to use basic HTML text styles to change the look of your text.

Flash Video 101: Authoring Flash Video with Dreamweaver: Sep 29, 2006; Importing video directly into Dreamweaver is ideal for situations in which you want to put video onto your site quickly and easily, with no interactive elements beyond simple video controls (play, stop, pause, skip ahead, and skip backward). James Gonzalez shows you how to quickly and easily add Flash video to a Web site using Dreamweaver, the world's leading HTML editor.

How to Export a Site Design From Fireworks to Dreamweaver: Sep 8, 2006; After you create and finalize your site's design in Fireworks, you can turn your attention to moving the design from Fireworks to Dreamweaver. Moving the design is a two-step process that involves image optimization and file export. In this lesson, you'll learn techniques for optimizing graphics. In addition, you'll work with various export settings to prepare the Fireworks document for export. In the process, you'll become familiar with Fireworks' Optimize panel and the Export HTML setup process, mastering the techniques used to find the best optimization and export settings for your original design.

Can Microsoft Expression Web Designer Touch Dreamweaver?: Sep 1, 2006; Look out, Dreamweaver. Consider Microsoft Expression Web Designer as Dreamweaver's new rival. Meryl Evans tells you why you shouldn't look at this competition in the iPod vs. everybody way, but instead in the Dell vs. HP way.

Create Text-Based Links in Dreamweaver 8: Aug 11, 2006; In this lesson, you’ll develop the initial framework of the site structure by developing placeholders for the pages in the Yoga Sangha project site. You’ll link these pages together using Dreamweaver’s visual site-mapping tools to create a working test site. Creating this kind of framework through pages and links in a bare but functional version of the site can help you test the navigation that you have developed. Testing the proposed site structure before creating the design will help you catch fundamental problems at the beginning of development, enabling you to address them more efficiently.

Build a Dynamic App Step-by-Step in Dreamweaver 8: Aug 4, 2006; By the end of this lesson, you’ll have an idea of how dynamic sites work, and what they are created to do; you’ll have Macromedia Dreamweaver configured to work with dynamic data; and you’ll have created your first page that uses dynamic content.

Creating a Local Site in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: May 4, 2006; Macromedia Dreamweaver enables you to develop and deploy your Web sites according to development best practices. As with any programming paradigm, it is recommended that you develop files in an environment separate from which a user can access. This enables developers to make changes to a site without any downtime and allows full testing prior to deploying new files. This chapter will help you work on a web page in a local environment.

Designing a Site from Scratch in Dreamweaver: Apr 14, 2006; Site planning and file structure can get a little cranial, but it’s really important to know this stuff to build efficient, well-designed web sites. This chapter will help cure any web-induced migraine, so stay tuned.

Preparing Your Dreamweaver Coding Environment: Apr 7, 2006; In this chapter, you'll learn how to access and use the many options you have for working with code in Dreamweaver, and how to configure your coding environment to support your own style of working with code.

Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver 8: How to Add Images: Mar 31, 2006; While text and headlines lend structure and meaning to Web pages, it's images that give your pages real impact. This chapter covers the basics of adding images to your web page with Dreamweaver 8.

Building Your First Page in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Mar 24, 2006; After you've set up your local site, you can begin filling the site with pages. To do that, you'll need to create a page, give it a title, add some content to the page, and save it. To check your work, you should view the page in one or more Web browsers before you upload it to your Web server. Luckily, Dreamweaver makes it easy to view your work in different browsers. This chapter will help you get started building your website in Dreamweaver.

How to Build Applications in Dreamweaver: Jan 20, 2006; Whether you're totally new to Dreamweaver or just creating dynamic Web applications with the program, this chapter will help you find your bearings. The first part explores the Dreamweaver workspace with an emphasis on its application-building capabilities. The rest of the chapter deals specifically with the basics of Web application tools that are standard in Dreamweaver. Everything from applying server behaviors to working in Live Data view is described.

Customize Dreamweaver Using Extensions: Jan 6, 2006; As a Web developer, you might want to write an extension for Dreamweaver to handle a commonly used, and therefore repetitive, task. Or, you might have a unique requirement that you can satisfy only by writing an extension for the specific situation. In both cases, Dreamweaver provides an extensive set of tools that you can use to add to or to customize its functionality. This sample chapter discusses a number of ways you can extend Dreamweaver to suit your Web development needs.

What's New in Dreamweaver 8?: Sep 30, 2005; After years of using Dreamweaver, Matthew David is excited by the latest version's new features for designers and developers. He covers his new favorites in this article.