Creating a Rollover Image in Dreamweaver CS3
In Dreamweaver, Rollover images — as the name implies — are designed to react when someone rolls a cursor over an image. The effect can be as dramatic as a picture of a dog being replaced by a picture [more…]
Creating and Using Guide Layers in Flash CS3
A guide layer is a layer that's invisible in the final, published Flash animation. You can use guide layers for several purposes: [more…]
What to Put in a Home Page
Many people think the most important thing about publishing their first Web page is learning HTML. They may take an HTML course, or pick up a book, and feel ready to create their first Web page. Only then [more…]
Comparing Video Editing Programs
Anyone who's had to sit through someone else's amateur home movies knows why video editing software is so crucial. Too many blurry, shaky images, stomach-wrenching zooms, and abrupt pans, and you find [more…]
Understanding the Integration of ColdFusion and Dreamweaver
Before the MX version, Dreamweaver was largely geared toward the basics of HTML editing, such as creating and editing tables, graphics placement, text editing, and some basic site management tools. With [more…]
Embedding Hyperlinks in a Picture with FrontPage 2003
An image map is simply a picture that contains more than one hyperlink. Visitors activate the different hyperlinks in the image map by clicking different places inside the picture. [more…]
Specifying Size and Position with CSS
In a CSS style definition (or rule), you can describe positions and sizes in many ways, using may different units of measurement. You can often choose whatever unit you want, although certain specific [more…]
Adding QuickTime Video Files to a Web Page
Many different multimedia formats exist, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. But no other multimedia format is as widely accepted, capable, or supported by so many different multimedia and Web [more…]
Using HTML Lists
People really like lists. Everywhere you look, you see lists. Here are three reasons why lists are a good thing — in a list, of course: [more…]
Borrowing Winning Web Site Ideas
All good Web sites grow and evolve. If you start with a strong design and pay close attention to some basic rules about interface, navigation, and style, you have a better foundation to build on. The following [more…]
Avoiding Web Design Blunders
Simply cruise the Web — especially areas with lots of personal pages, like the GeoCities site or AOL's Hometown area — and you can find many examples of badly designed pages. But what is it that makes [more…]
Playing with Active Text in Flash
Static text gets the job done, giving information to your Web site visitors. But Flash can do so much more with text. Sometimes you don't want your text to be text at all, but rather prefer a bunch of [more…]
Taking a Tumble with CSS
What does the term cascade mean for style sheets? It means that a CSS rule tumbles down through the code, and sometimes bumps into a conflicting rule.
The cascade is about what programmers call [more…]
Understanding How Forms Work in FrontPage 2003
Before you build a form, understanding the basics of how forms work can help. If this stuff seems a little tricky, don't worry. FrontPage 2003 takes care of the hard part. All you need to do is decide [more…]
Getting Web Server Space
A Web server is a computer that's connected to the World Wide Web and runs special software that enables it to provide information to Web users. You can easily get space on a Web server. Several Web-based [more…]
Appreciating HTML Frames
Frames add innovative navigation control because they enable you to display multiple HTML pages in one browser window and control the contents of each framed area individually. Designers commonly use frames [more…]
Dreamweaver to Fireworks: Image Editing
Suppose that you have a logo on your Web page and your client suddenly wants it in a different color. Normally, this would mean launching another image-editing program, tracking down the logo, opening [more…]
Thinking Your Web Page Through
A Web page or Web site is basically a publication, though an interactive one. Thinking about a few simple principles now, before you start, can help make your Web page much more interesting and useful [more…]
Tips for Success with ASP.NET 3.5
A huge, friendly user community supports ASP.NET. Freeresources are plentiful if you want to build dynamic, interactive, data-driven Web pages with ASP.NET 3.5. Here are some helpful hints for your Web [more…]
Importing an Existing Web Site into FrontPage 2002
If you want to use FrontPage to maintain and update a Web site that was originally assembled using a different program or coded by hand, you must first import that site into FrontPage. The easiest way [more…]
Creating a Grid Table in FrontPage 2003
FrontPage 2003 offers no less than four methods for creating a table. Here are two of the easier methods. [more…]
Tapping Timesaving Dreamweaver Tips
Even the best programs get better when you know how to make the most of them. Take a moment to check out these tips and save tons of time in developing your Web site. Most of these tips apply to both Macintosh [more…]
Introducing ActionScript Classes, Objects, and Methods
Objects, classes, methods, and properties — whew, that's a mouthful — are the building blocks of ActionScript programming. These terms are all related, and understanding how they interact is one of the [more…]
Publicizing Your Site
Getting people to come to your site can be very easy, or very difficult. The main thing that makes it seem hard to get traffic is your own set of expectations. If you expect huge numbers of visitors [more…]
Comparing Wikis with Other Online Communication Tools
Wikis are toolkits for creating Web pages. Here's how a wiki differs from other forms of Internet collaborative tools, such as e-mail, blogs, bulletin boards, forums, content management systems, and Web [more…]
