Rediscovering Snippets
I recently did a new installation of Dreamweaver, and lost all of my customizations that I had accumulated. In hindsight, I guess there are quite a few that I can live without... but there was one...
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In a previous post I told of how I had been re-awakened to the power of snippets. Here then are a couple more which can be loaded into Dreamweaver and used when you are creating forms. Now remember,...
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Book Review: “Don’t make me think”
Those of you who know me are familiar with an often used phrase "measure twice; cut once". It's not often that I go against the 'let's think this through' rule. However, a new book by Steve Krug...
View ArticleUsing RSS feeds in HTML pages without PHP
When we first started using RSS feeds on Case's web presence, like the news headlines feed on the Case homepage, we were using an outside source to process them, and bringing them in via javascript....
View ArticleGood Interview with Tim O’Reilly
I found this interesting... I hope you do too. It was written with an obvious focus on Adobe; also found are general principles and ideas on where the web is going. All in all a good read. Text version...
View ArticleGood article about CSS and “Standards”
I saw a good article today and I thought it might be a great launching point for some discussion here... (Please comment if you are reading this blog even occasionally). The important things to take...
View ArticleChoosing a good password
Since October was Cyber Security Month... (wow, is it November already?) I thought I would write a post on the importance of a good password. I recently changed my password in Case's system, and I was...
View ArticleFavorite / Recommended Web Hosts
With the end of a semester here already, and a break coming up, I'm sure that many students and staff will be working again on personal Web projects. Now, of course there are opportunities for...
View ArticleOn Aesthetics and Usability in Design
I hope everyone enjoys this (in my opinion) very useful video podcast. The parent site WebProNews has an entire series of these (mostly dealing with Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This one is less...
View ArticleMore DW Snippets – 50 states form select in two versions
In a previous entry I wrote about snippets in Dreamweaver. This is simply a method for saving small bits of code that you can use and reuse. There's a panel in DW where you save these, and I guess...
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