As previously noted, there a a few things about Dreamweaver just waiting to ruin your plans for your site. This next one gets everyone, all the time… (more…)
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Adobe Dreamweaver – Easy Mistakes to Make Part 2 – The Design View
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Adobe Dreamweaver – Easy Mistakes to Make Part 1 – Failing to Define a Site
Saturday, October 31st, 2009The Dreamweaver engineers have a tough row to hoe – caught between the needs of novice users and hardcore code veterans the program often fails to gently guide users through the process of putting a web site together.
Adobe Dreamweaver – Easy Mistakes To Make… Part 1… is a Graphics Training Source mini-series that draws on Andrew’s Vast Reservoir o’ Training Experience to help you – yes you, avoid the Most Calamitous Dreamweaver Mistakes…
Web Colour pt 1 – The ‘Web Safe’ Colours
Monday, October 19th, 2009What are these self-styled ‘Web Safe’ colours. Do you need them? Should you care?
10 million years ago when the DTPosaurs worked on huge, slow computers with tiny, tiny little screens, there wasn’t a lot of anything to go round, not enough RAM, not disk space, not enough colours.
That’s why when the web came along it was important for designers to recognise that not everyone’s monitor could display the same colours. At that time the fanciest graphics cards where maybe putting out 16bit colours (that’s 65536 different colours) but your average punter would of probably owned a 8bit card (that’s only 256 colours folks!)
To make things more confusing both the Mac’s system palette and Window’s system palette were different from each other… (more…)