Category: Dreamweaver

Breaking out of Dreamweaver for PC’s interface

Posted on April 19, 2005 by ellen

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 vertical real estate.

It took me several months to figure out that they can be dragged out of the interface. Why the actual PAGE cannot be similarly dragged, I don’t know, except that it is more consistent with the irritating way that Powerpoint’s interface behaves on a PC. An example of 2 panels hogging space is shown below with the Design and Files panels.. I realize the panels could be set to not be on top, but I wanted them OUT of there – over on the left monitor, without having to make the entire interface 2 monitors wide, which causes other problems.

Troubleshooting Coursebuilder installation in Dreamweaver MX 2004

Posted on February 14, 2005 by ellen

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

Dreamweaver MX 2004 Slowdown after re-install

Posted on November 17, 2004 by ellen

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

Troubleshooting Database Connections in Dreamweaver MX

Posted on August 31, 2003 by ellen

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

Installing PHP/mySQL scripts – Tips for Designers

Posted on May 21, 2003 by ellen

or …
“Just Enough about Unix to get into trouble…”

Determine type of server:
I’ve found that PHP scripts work more reliably on Unix servers than NT. Also, be sure that the server is not running PHP as a cgi script. It really doesn’t work as well. How do you tell?

phpinfo
Upload a little file containing this code:

<? phpinfo(); ?>

Name the file “phpinfo.php” and then view that page online in your web browser. This is a php script that returns all the information about your server environment. In the first table of information, you will find “Server API.” This should be “Apache.” If it says “CGI” you are in trouble. However some things will work fine in this setup, so it’s always worth a try.