Category Archives: AJAX/JavaScript

Linking to Spry panels—updated tutorial

Posted on 18 September 2008 by David Powers

I’ve had a lot of positive reaction to my tutorial about linking to specific panels of Spry tabbed panels and accordions, but several people have found it difficult to adapt the code to work with a collapsible panel. In response … Continue reading →

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Essential Guide goes to fifth printing

Posted on 2 June 2008 by David Powers

For the past couple of weeks, online stores in the United States have been out of stock of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP. I’ve been in touch with my publisher to find out what … Continue reading →

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Stunning new Dreamweaver in public beta

Posted on 27 May 2008 by David Powers

Many people were underwhelmed—wrongly in my opinion—by the last two releases of Dreamweaver. Well, Adobe has been working for the past year on the next version (Dreamweaver CS4), and it’s taken the bold decision to release it as a public … Continue reading →

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Join me in an online seminar

Posted on 26 March 2008 by David Powers

All this week, Adobe is running Adobe Developer Week, a series of seminars on web development. On Friday 28 March, it’s my turn to give a talk called “The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP”. If … Continue reading →

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Spry tutorial: linking to a non-default panel

Posted on 9 February 2008 by David Powers

Several readers have asked me to explain how to create a link to a specific panel in a Spry tabbed panels widget or accordion. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 shows how to do this from the same page, but … Continue reading →

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Spry 1.6 breaks examples in Essential Guide to DW CS3

Posted on 6 January 2008 by David Powers

A question in the friends of ED forum from a reader of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP has alerted me to a change in the way Spry 1.6 handles HTML tags in CDATA sections … Continue reading →

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Spry updater finally available for Dreamweaver CS3

Posted on 2 October 2007 by David Powers

At long last, Adobe has created an extension to update the version of Spry in Dreamweaver CS3. You can download the extension by going to the Spry section of Adobe Labs. The extension is free, but to obtain it, you … Continue reading →

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