Category Archives: CSS

My verdict on Dreamweaver CS6

Adobe has officially announced details of Creative Suite 6 (CS6) and the Creative Cloud. What’s particularly significant about this release is that it represents the last chance to skip one or two versions and still benefit from reduced upgrade pricing. … Continue reading

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PhoneGap update for Dreamweaver CS5.5

Adobe has just released an extension for Dreamweaver CS5.5 that radically changes the way you create native apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with the PhoneGap framework. Instead of using a local emulator for Android and iOS, it uploads your … Continue reading

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Great training resource for web designers and digital artists

I’m a great fan of learning from books—that’s why I written so many. But there are times when a book just won’t do. Seeing and hearing an expert show you how to do something often has much more impact. Several … Continue reading

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An odd turn-up for the book

Yesterday, I received an invitation to review a new book about Dreamweaver. Nothing terribly remarkable about that. After all, I’m well known in the Dreamweaver community and I recently published a review of Peter Gasston’s excellent The Book of CSS3. … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston

Several months ago, I attended a fascinating talk on CSS3 by Peter Gasston at London Web. As one of the first people to ask a question during the Q&A session at the end of Peter’s talk, I received a free … Continue reading

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My book on Dreamweaver CS5.5 is now available online

My new book, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 Studio Techniques: Designing and Developing for Mobile with jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3, is now available as Rough Cuts in the Safari Online Library and Creative Edge. In spite of being published as Rough Cuts, … Continue reading

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Taking Dreamweaver into the lions’ den

Last night, the good folks at London Web Standards allowed me to take the floor for a five-minute “lightning talk” to demonstrate some of the new features of Dreamweaver CS5.5, which had been officially announced only 14 hours earlier. It … Continue reading

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My Next Book: Dreamweaver CS5.5 for Mobile

I’ve been burning the midnight oil since the beginning of this year, working on my next book—Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 for Mobile with jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3: Studio Techniques. The book is now complete, and is scheduled to go live on … Continue reading

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Dreamweaver CS5.5—More Than a Point Release

Finally, I can reveal details of the version of Dreamweaver that I’ve been experimenting with for the past few months. Officially, it’s called Dreamweaver CS5.5, which makes it sound as though it has a couple of extra features, but not … Continue reading

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New extension to convert colours to RGBA

CSS3 offers a new way to define colours: RGBA. This extends the RGB (red, green, blue) colour model to include alpha transparency. Unfortunately, RGBA does not accept hexadecimal values for colours. So, I have created a free Dreamweaver extension that … Continue reading

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