http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Mon, 24 May 2010 17:11:15 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000782.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000780.html This is a talk I gave recently to a group of educator/trainers within the U of M Health System. Although it contains many UMHS-specific references, the concepts outlined in it can be applied to other training environments as well. There's nothing particularly original here, just some suggestions for how to select among different technologies commonly available. This was the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000374.html While working on a php insert-record form I was getting the error: #1062 - Duplicate entry '127' for key 1 although there were no other records with the id "127" - just the latest one. Thanks to jc_armor for the answer to this: "quick question, what's the Data Type of your ID field? It could be a reason that the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000326.html Do you ever need to escape HTML in your blog posts, so that it will not execute as code? I've been using Accessify.com's quick escape tool, but realized that there was another tool even closer at hand: Dreamweaver! If you paste code into Dreamweaver's Design view, then open Code view, it will be escaped automatically, ready for you to copy... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000294.html Working on a Dreamweaver site the other day, I tried to paste text from an email into the page. When CTR-V didn't work, I tried the menu - but the paste option was grayed out. It turns out this has something to do with having moved the site files panel over to the left monitor. (Yet another glitch in Window's... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000289.html There are times when you may find it necessary to detach hundreds of pages from their Dreamweaver templates. Unfortunately, within the Dreamweaver interface the only way to detach multiple files from their templates is to open each one, then select "Modify:Templates:Detach from Template" from the menu. A better way to go is to use a simple "grep" search in BBEdit:... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000188.html Firefox, the web developer's debugging tool of choice The best browser to use to check javascript errors is Firefox, hands down. Other browsers have some error reporting, but none give you anywhere near the detailed information as Firebug, an addon to Firefox. The extensions available allow you to snoop into every aspect of your page, and into the communication... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000231.html Since installing Dreamweaver 8, expanding the files panel to show both remote and local sites caused freezes. The application would become unresponsive, and a few seconds later "not responding" would show up by Dreamweaver's title in the force quit window. Updating the application did not help. However a suggestion in the Emerging Issues document did provide a work-around: Create a... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000194.html Click here to return to Part 3 Create the navbar Select your button, then duplicate it by selecting Duplicate or Clone from the Edit menu.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000191.html Make the rectangle into a functioning button To designate the rectangle as a button, so that it will react when your mouse rolls over it or clicks on it, it needs to be converted to a button symbol. Fireworks button symbols have some functions built in, making it very easy to create the behaviors you want. With the rectangle still... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000183.html If you've found the new DreamweaverMX 2004 for Windows interface as confining as I did, you will know the frustration of trying to get more room for your work out of the screen. I have 2 monitors, so had plenty of horizontal space, but I could not get rid of the Properties panel and other items that were taking up... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000171.html Coursebuilder is a Dreamweaver extension that creates learning interactions, like quiz questions. When I installed the extension in Dreamweaver MX 2004, it seemed to work fine, until I got to the point of using the Actions manager tab in any given interaction. then I would get an error message that said "Actions Manager Data was invalid," then another dialog came... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000151.html I had forgotten all about this issue, but was reintroduced to the Dreamweaver Slowdown after installing it on a new system drive. On opening an old document, typing slows to a crawl, even when there isn't much on the page. The answer is to install the updater, located here. This updates Dreamweaver 7.0 to 7.1 (on a mac at least)... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000076.html Here is a basic search form done Dreamweaver MX that selects records based on the input from several form selectors. See demo here]]> http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000042.html If you have trouble getting Dreamweaver to connect to a database, and you are pretty sure you have all the settings (username, password, db server, etc.) correct, check out ">this article If the host directory path is not quite right, it will not work. It seems that Dreamweaver uploads a hidden file to your host directory. If you have the...