Category: Dreamweaver

Enhancing Learning through Technology – Part 2

Posted on May 24, 2010 by ellen

Scenario-based learning can teach decision-making and thinking processes. Here is an example of the “Labyrinth” scenario-based learning system created in a Scottish medical school which features low fidelity simulations created with just text and pictures – but with great effect.

Each page describes what’s going on and gives a choice of action.

Here you are a doctor doing rounds and a nurse comes in with news about a patient who is increasingly breathless. Your choice here is “Stick with the rounds” or “Ask to see the patient”

If you stick with the rounds, you start wondering if you are doing the right thing, and are soon brought back to the right track -going to see the patient.

Enhancing Learning through Technology – Part I

Posted on May 21, 2010 by ellen

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 first part of a two-part presentation. The second part featured tips for creating engagement and improving digital photography.

Best Practice Showcase: Enhancing Learning through Technology

Our team has lots of tools you can use to create online training. There are so many choices, in fact, that it can be difficult to decide which to select when you’re starting a new project.

To help you sort through all the options, I’m going to give you some typical instructional situations and suggest tools that might best support them, without breaking the budget in the process. These are all things you can use – they don’t require a computer science degree to get a good result!

mySQL error: duplicate entry ‘127’ for key

Posted on August 3, 2007 by ellen

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.

Easy way to escape text using Dreamweaver

Posted on March 12, 2007 by ellen

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

Can’t paste text into a file within Dreamweaver 8

Posted on October 13, 2006 by ellen

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 implementation of a two monitor setup.)

The solution is:

Close DW8 and Navigate as follows:
– Documents and settings
– Administrator or whatever your user account name is
– Application data
– Macromedia
– DW8
– rename the “configuration” folder

Restart Dreamweaver 8 – the problem should be gone.

Dreamweaver: Mass Detach from Template

Posted on September 27, 2006 by ellen

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:

Make sure you have a backup of your site. You can cause truly spectacular destruction with mass search and replace! OK, you’ve been warned!
Open BBEdit, and select Find from the Search menu. The Find & Replace dialog will appear. (click to enlarge)

Debugging and troubleshooting HTML and javascript

Posted on May 11, 2006 by ellen

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 between page and server.

You will need to get several Firefox extensions:

Firebug
Firebug is the one extension I can’t live without. It shows errors in javascript, css, allows you to inspect the HTML source, computed style, events, etc.

Dreamweaver Crashes on Tiger when expanding files panel

Posted on February 11, 2006 by ellen

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

Part 4. Step by Step guide to using Fireworks to create Popup Menus

Posted on June 25, 2005 by ellen

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.

Part 2. Step by Step guide to using Fireworks to create Popup Menus