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Adobe have launched a new community website with the aim of: Finding solutions to CSS and browser compatibility issues Sharing solutions and workarounds you’ve discovered with the community Allowing the community to comment on and improve existing solutions CSS Advisor will apparently be integrated into the next version of Dreamweaver which (according to Sitepoint) is [...]

I’ve been accepted as a beta tester for a new version of a programme I use everyday (very exciting ;¬) ). I can’t tell you which product it is because I’m sworn to secrecy (I’m not even allowed to let anyone know about the existence of this update ), I’d quite like to get on [...]

Since the arrival of IE7 there have been a number of workarounds developed to enable designers & developers to test their site in IE6 & IE7 on the same machine. However, none of these have been entirely successful; for example the standalone version of IE6 I had installed didn’t work with html conditional comments, so [...]

I was looking the stats for this site earlier and saw that someone had come here having searched for “dreamweaver 8 ftp password registry”. I can’t be certain, but I suspect who ever it was had lost or forgotten their FTP password and was hoping to recover it from Dreamweaver. I was in the same [...]

Microsoft have just launched Photosynth an amazing new website with software that “takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.” With Photosynth you can: Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle. Seamlessly zoom in [...]

If like me you spend a lot of your day looking at a PC then you want it to be as easy on the easy as possible. The standard Windows XP look does get quite boring after a while, so for the last year or so I have had the Royale theme installed on both [...]

I like the quick search facility in firefox; the dictionary search is particularly useful. by typing “dict search-term” into the address bar you get a dictionary definition. The definitions used to be provided by dictionary.reference.com but for some reason in the last couple of versions it’s been the Merriam-Webster website. I just don’t think the [...]

Recently I’ve been having a frustrating time using Dreamweaver’s FTP client. For some reason, it kept losing the FTP user name and password whenever I restarted dreamweaver, and it seems I was not alone. It appears that the problem was caused by a conflict between the version of Dreamweaver I was running and IE7. Downloading [...]

IE 7 is finaly out. Do yourself a favour, go to the Microsoft site and download it Today. It’s just so much nicer to use than previous versions and it’s supposed to be more secure too.

I’m sitting in the Brighton Odeon Cinema in the “Fully Web” Session of “Fully Loaded” Tour it’s being presented by Steve B(something). It’s basically Adobe trying to sell their suite of web development products. It’s not really holding my attention. There are two reasons for this: Firstly, all they have covered in any detail so [...]