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New BrowserLab feature

Posted on January 14, 2010 by jvarese | Comments (0)

Today a small but very helpful feature was added to Adobe BrowserLab, the Adobe web hosted service that helps you check for cross-browser compatibility. You can now save screenshots that BrowserLab generates, for easy reference or to send around to others.
If you have Dreamweaver CS4, make sure to download the BrowserLab extensions, so that you can launch the service directly from Dreamweaver, and exclusively preview frozen Javascript menus, Ajax data, local content, and more. All you need to do is download and install the two BrowserLab extensions. (Note – the BrowserLab team has made a couple changes to the extensions, so if you already have them installed you’ll need to delete them and install the new ones).
BrowserLab is currently available as a limited free preview.

Getting Started with CSS

Posted on December 21, 2009 by jvarese | Comments (0)

Not only is the title of this blog posting a topic of interest for many, many Dreamweaver users, it is also the title of a brand new book by Dreamweaver Community Expert and moderator, David Powers. We’re very excited about this book because it promises to teach the very best CSS methods and techniques, from one of the best educators out there.
Between now and February 26th, 2010, APRESS is actually offering readers of this blog a 50% discount on the ebook version of Getting Started with CSS. Visit www.apress.com, search for the book by title, click the BUY AS EBOOK button, and enter the promotional code: DWBLOGMR.
Mr. Powers (the name is apt) is one of the most active members on the Adobe Dreamweaver forums, so if you have questions or comments about his book, you can always find him there.

FLV video – new troubleshooting doc

Posted on August 27, 2009 by jvarese | Comments (0)

There have been many, many posts on the Dreamweaver forums about problems with displaying FLV files. We’ve just updated the CS4 documentation to include a new troubleshooting section that might help a lot of you who are having problems. As this is a much-talked-about issue, please publicize this troubleshooting information as much as possible on other blogs and forums if you’re able to do that.
Special thanks to David Powers who originally alerted us to the need for such a doc.
The doc does not and cannot cover all issues. There are still many users for whom this doc won’t provide a solution. But hopefully, the information provided will be able to help a good majority of people having trouble with FLV.

Automatically attaching CSS style sheets to new documents

Posted on August 20, 2009 by jvarese | Comments (0)

I wanted to alert everyone to another great new Community article published by Adobe Community Expert David Powers. The article details how to attach CSS style sheets automatically when you create new documents.
Here’s the article:
http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/505/cpsid_50564.html
This handy option is easy to miss, especially if you don’t use the New Document Dialog box to create documents, so big thanks to David for highlighting this.
Furthermore, the appearance of such an article is a great example of how Community content can interact and live symbiotically with Adobe Help. We’ve linked directly to David’s piece from our documentation, and this is indeed a great thing because David is able to go into much more detail about the process of automatically attaching style sheets than we are able to do in Help:
Create a blank page
Create a page with a CSS layout
If you’re interested in publishing Community articles of your own, download the Community Publishing AIR application.

Spry Accordions, Tabbed Panels, and Collapsible Panels: changing colors

Posted on August 20, 2009 by jvarese | Comments (1)

I wanted to alert everyone to a great new Community article published by Adobe Community Expert David Powers. The article details the various best practices and methods for changing the colors of Accordion, Tabbed Panels, and Collapsible Panel widgets, including tab backgrounds, borders, and so on.
Here’s the article:
http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/504/cpsid_50437.html
Customization questions are pretty frequent in both the Spry and Dreamweaver forums. This new styling guide is sure to answer lots of peoples’ questions.
Furthermore, the appearance of such an article is a great example of how Community content can interact and live symbiotically with Adobe Help. We’ve linked directly to David’s piece from our own customization pages for the Spry Accordion, Tabbed Panels, and Collapsible Panels widgets:
Customize the Accordion widget
Customize the Tabbed Panels widget
Customize the Collapsible Panels widget
Thanks a lot to David for hammering out this article.
If you’re interested in publishing Community articles of your own, you can download the Community Publishing AIR application and get right to work!

New Dreamweaver Tutorials page

Posted on August 19, 2009 by jvarese | Comments (0)

We’ve added a Tutorials page to the Dreamweaver CS4 help files, since many of you have often asked for the availability of those kinds of resources directly from Help.
The page links out to other resources, including the Check Magazine first website series on the Adobe Developer Center, and all of the Lynda.com video tutorials that were created for CS4.
For those of you who are CSS newbies, be sure not to miss David Powers’s new piece, Using Page Properties to create a basic CSS style sheet. This is a great how-to that shows you how easy it is to get started with CSS. David’s piece was also amongst the first to be published using Adobe’s new Community Publishing System.
If you know of other Dreamweaver tutorials — either by you or someone else — that would make a good addition to the new Tutorials page, please leave links in the Comments section (of the Tutorial page, not this thread) so that we can learn about as many resources as possible.