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Dave Sawyer McFarland
Dave Sawyer McFarland is a Web designer, instructor, speaker, and the author of Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual and CSS: The Missing Manual. You can learn more about his books and work at www.sawmac.com.
View Source: Add a Content Slider To Your Website
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on October 25, 2011
Slideshows that rotate a series of images, text, and links across a web page are a great way to display a lot of information without taking up a lot of space. This tutorial will give you everything you need - including all the requisite files - to add a content slider slideshow to any website.
Building WordPress Sites with Dreamweaver CS5: Part 3
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on May 18, 2011
Congratulations! You've reached the final stage: moving your WordPress site from a local testing machine to a public Web server the world can see.
Build WordPress Sites with Dreamweaver CS5: Part 2
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on March 14, 2011
Learn how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to customize one of WordPress's many themes.
Build WordPress Sites with Dreamweaver CS5: Part 1
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on February 2, 2011
In this series, you'll learn how to set up WordPress on your own computer, connect Dreamweaver to it, and use Dreamweaver CS5’s powerful new tools for working with WordPress—tools that can make it easier to customize the look of a WordPress site to match your artistic vision.
10 Dreamweaver Power Tips
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on November 17, 2010
Here 10 tips for using Dreamweaver to its fullest. They cover organizing the program’s panels, working efficiently with HTML, properly working with a site’s files, and more.
Expand Your Web Design Font Choices, Part 2
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on March 26, 2010
Don't limit yourself to "Web-safe" fonts! Instead, you can use an online Web fonts service, or try the do-it-yourself method: putting Web fonts on your own server. In this article, you'll learn how to use Font Squirrel's @font-face kits and its @font-face generator.
Expand Your Web Design Font Choices, Part 1
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on February 8, 2010
The @font-face rule is the secret sauce of modern Web typography. You'll never be stuck with that limited set of "Web safe" fonts again! In part 1, you'll learn how to implement @font-face easily using Web font hosting services.
View Source: Make Web Site Elements Partially Transparent
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on September 16, 2009
With CSS3, you can create all kinds of transparency effects, including overlapping, partially transparent text and buttons. And it even works in IE!
Master Templates in Dreamweaver, Part III
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on August 5, 2009
Use optional regions to hide and show pieces of code on different template-based pages. You'll escape that cookie cutter look yet still save lots of time!
Master Templates in Dreamweaver, Part II
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on July 9, 2009
Do you think that building a site with templates will lead to something that looks the same on every page? Never fear! In part two of this three-part series, you'll learn how CSS magic and a little-known Dreamweaver template feature helps you build visually unique pages using just one Dreamweaver template.
Master Templates in Dreamweaver: Part 1
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on May 21, 2009
Templates are production godsends, but they're also flexible enough to let you stretch your design muscles and keep a site's many pages varied and interesting. This three-part series will tell you everything you need to know about making and using Dreamweaver CS4 templates.
View Source: Designing and Testing Sites for Internet Explorer 8
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on April 8, 2009
IE8 is faster and better, but if you’re not careful, IE8 may ignore all of its fancy CSS and JavaScript improvements and revert to displaying pages like IE7 or even IE5. Here's how to outsmart it.
View Source: Make Pop-Up Tooltips with Dreamweaver
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on February 25, 2009
You can add pop-up image captions, word definitions, and more to your Web pages, and you don't need to be a programmer to do it. Here's how to make it happen in Dreamweaver CS4.
ViewSource: Build Interactive HTML Tables with Dreamweaver CS4
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on January 7, 2009
An HTML table is the best way to display rows and columns of information. But giving site visitors the ability to sort that data hasn't been so easy. Now, with a little help from JavaScript and Dreamweaver CS4, you can super-power your HTML tables so that visitors can quickly sort that data.
View Source: How to Use Photoshop Files with Dreamweaver CS4
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on November 19, 2008
Follow along with tutorial files while you learn the best practices in Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver How-to: Create "You Are Here" Navigation Links
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on June 13, 2008
Use this simple technique to create a nav bar button that changes to reflect a visitor's location in your site, then make it work across the site using Dreamweaver CS3's Template.
View Source: Make Your Links Unforgettable
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on April 30, 2008
Most Web usability books (for example, Steve Krug's excellent Don't Make Me Think) emphasize that the less you make a visitor think and work, the more likely they'll visit, enjoy, and benefit from your site. The typical HTML link is one of those things that make visitors work -- a single linked word, for example, is a small target that requires good aim to hit. That's one of the reasons Web designers make navigation bars with buttons that are larger than the text inside them.
View Source: JavaScript for Designers
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on February 25, 2008
Add interactive Web site effects without a lot of programming.
View Source: An Introduction to Dreamweaver Templates
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on January 4, 2008
Want to build and update your sites more quickly and efficiently? Read on.
View Source: Web Design's Magic Bullet Is Back!
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on November 26, 2007
Do you want overlapping page elements, captions that sit on top of photos, and images that float outside the edges of their containing divs? Modern browsers and this tutorial make it safe to try CSS positioning again.
