Comments on: Spry updater finally available for Dreamweaver CS3 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:16:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: James http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-13812 James Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:14:12 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-13812 Thanks for the link to the jQuery book. That ought come in handy after I've finished reading your new book and tinkering a bit with <a href="http://www.monc.se/tripoli/" title="a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects" rel="nofollow">Tripoli</a>. Thanks for the link to the jQuery book. That ought come in handy after I’ve finished reading your new book and tinkering a bit with Tripoli.

]]> By: David http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-13777 David Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:41:31 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-13777 There are two reasons my Dreamweaver CS3 book concentrates on Spry rather than jQuery. 1. Spry is integrated directly into Dreamweaver CS3. At the click of a button, you can insert an accordion or validation widget, and control most of the settings through the Dreamweaver Property inspector. You can't do that with jQuery. 2. There are only so many hours in a day. Writing a 750-page book is very time consuming. Although I have experimented with jQuery, and found it very impressive, I don't know enough about it to devote a section of a book to it. Of course, if a future version of Dreamweaver adds support for jQuery (or any other third-party feature), and I'm still writing, I'll definitely cover it in one of my books. If you're looking for a book on jQuery, though, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1847192505?tag=japaninterfac-20" title="See 'Learning jQuery' on Amazon.com" rel="nofollow"><em>Learning jQuery</em> by Karl Sweberg and Jonathan Chaffer</a> is very good. There are two reasons my Dreamweaver CS3 book concentrates on Spry rather than jQuery.

1. Spry is integrated directly into Dreamweaver CS3. At the click of a button, you can insert an accordion or validation widget, and control most of the settings through the Dreamweaver Property inspector. You can’t do that with jQuery.

2. There are only so many hours in a day. Writing a 750-page book is very time consuming. Although I have experimented with jQuery, and found it very impressive, I don’t know enough about it to devote a section of a book to it. Of course, if a future version of Dreamweaver adds support for jQuery (or any other third-party feature), and I’m still writing, I’ll definitely cover it in one of my books.

If you’re looking for a book on jQuery, though, Learning jQuery by Karl Sweberg and Jonathan Chaffer is very good.

]]> By: James http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-13774 James Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:58:49 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-13774 Hi David, I've been itching to buy your new book (<i>Dreamweaver CS3 with...</i>), but I'm curious as to why you chose not to devote a bit of space to <a href="http://jquery.com/" title="jQuery" / rel="nofollow">jQuery</a>. Spry looks promising, but jQuery seems to have quite a following at the moment. Any thoughts? Hi David,
I’ve been itching to buy your new book (Dreamweaver CS3 with…), but I’m curious as to why you chose not to devote a bit of space to jQuery.

Spry looks promising, but jQuery seems to have quite a following at the moment. Any thoughts?

]]> By: Stephanie Sullivan http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11825 Stephanie Sullivan Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:43:06 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11825 Thanks David... Appreciate it. :) Stef. Thanks David… Appreciate it. :)
Stef.

]]> By: David http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11788 David Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:30:44 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11788 Chris, the blog part of my site is powered by WordPress. I can't claim any credit for it whatsoever. :( I experimented briefly with Drupal, but don't remember seeing a calendar module - although you might find one on the Drupal site. There seem to be modules for everything there. It's just a question of finding the one you want - as long as you have the time and patience to search for it. :) Chris, the blog part of my site is powered by WordPress. I can’t claim any credit for it whatsoever. :(

I experimented briefly with Drupal, but don’t remember seeing a calendar module - although you might find one on the Drupal site. There seem to be modules for everything there. It’s just a question of finding the one you want - as long as you have the time and patience to search for it. :)

]]> By: Chris Seymour http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11786 Chris Seymour Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:24:18 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11786 Hi David, This is slightly off-topic. I own a few of your books and have been very pleased with them. I am in the process of re-writing a couple sites that had been maintained with Drupal, modelling after the designs in your book. Now to my question, I like the calendar you have on your site and was curious if your books cover how this was done? I need to add an events calendar to a couple of my sites and was curious if this was covered in any of your PHP books? Thanks. Chris Seymour Hi David,
This is slightly off-topic. I own a few of your books and have been very pleased with them. I am in the process of re-writing a couple sites that had been maintained with Drupal, modelling after the designs in your book. Now to my question, I like the calendar you have on your site and was curious if your books cover how this was done? I need to add an events calendar to a couple of my sites and was curious if this was covered in any of your PHP books?

Thanks.

Chris Seymour

]]> By: David http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11776 David Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:54:57 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11776 I have no idea if it will fix your problem. "Not functioning correctly" isn't a very helpful description. The Spry menu does work straight out of the box in IE6, so it sounds as though you have modified it in some way. Still, the Spry updater is free. It's easy to install, and it creates a backup of your old Spry files, so you have nothing to lose by giving it a try. Perhaps you have plenty to gain. If it doesn't solve your problem, I suggest you post details again in the Adobe forum. Be as specific as possible about what happens in IE6, and - most important of all - post a link to the problem page/site. The only way to solve website problems is by examining the code. I have no idea if it will fix your problem. “Not functioning correctly” isn’t a very helpful description. The Spry menu does work straight out of the box in IE6, so it sounds as though you have modified it in some way. Still, the Spry updater is free. It’s easy to install, and it creates a backup of your old Spry files, so you have nothing to lose by giving it a try. Perhaps you have plenty to gain.

If it doesn’t solve your problem, I suggest you post details again in the Adobe forum. Be as specific as possible about what happens in IE6, and - most important of all - post a link to the problem page/site. The only way to solve website problems is by examining the code.

]]> By: chris stokes http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11770 chris stokes Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:28:51 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11770 Hello, I am with the San Antonio Office of Emergency Management and have been working on a website to help promote our emergency preparedness efforts for the city. We have been using CS3, designing the site using layers and utilizing the Spry widgets to create a menu for the site. We are very happy with the site and the ease of the program, I am new to web design and everything seemed to be going great. We have seemed to run into a snag with the Spry menu not functioning properly in IE6, works great in IE7. Any thoughts, will this Spry 1.6 resolve this issue? I have found no help, via forums or Adobe, on this issue. PLEEEAAASSSEEE HELP. We are so close. Thanks for listening, I hope you can help. Chris Hello, I am with the San Antonio Office of Emergency Management and have been working on a website to help promote our emergency preparedness efforts for the city. We have been using CS3, designing the site using layers and utilizing the Spry widgets to create a menu for the site. We are very happy with the site and the ease of the program, I am new to web design and everything seemed to be going great.

We have seemed to run into a snag with the Spry menu not functioning properly in IE6, works great in IE7. Any thoughts, will this Spry 1.6 resolve this issue? I have found no help, via forums or Adobe, on this issue. PLEEEAAASSSEEE HELP. We are so close.

Thanks for listening, I hope you can help.

Chris

]]> By: David http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11767 David Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:46:31 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11767 Hi Steph, Sorry about that. I moved servers recently, and the filepath was wrong in the download page. It's all fixed now. The script can be downloaded from <a href="http://foundationphp.com/tools/css_comments.php" title="Get the CSS comment stripper" rel="nofollow">http://foundationphp.com/tools/css_comments.php</a>. Hi Steph,

Sorry about that. I moved servers recently, and the filepath was wrong in the download page. It’s all fixed now. The script can be downloaded from http://foundationphp.com/tools/css_comments.php.

]]> By: Stephanie Sullivan http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11766 Stephanie Sullivan Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:06:55 +0000 http://foundationphp.com/blog/2007/10/02/spry-updater-finally-available-for-dreamweaver-cs3/#comment-11766 David... I'm at MAX and sending people to your site to download the comment stripper extension ... Only someone just made me aware that the file is unavailable. :) Are you working on it? Revising it? Putting it back? Or should I not mention it anymore. LOL Ciao, Stef. David… I’m at MAX and sending people to your site to download the comment stripper extension … Only someone just made me aware that the file is unavailable. :) Are you working on it? Revising it? Putting it back? Or should I not mention it anymore. LOL

Ciao,
Stef.

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