Hey Josh….I appreciate your post but think your logic is a bit faulty.

Josh basically said that too many people have fallen for the general consensus that wordpress is the best platform for building websites and selling good and services online, he goes on to say its a matter of what wordpress does…..you can read more about it here.

The water is hot and I burn my hand. However, you say not all water burns your hand. Exactly, only hot water!

Thus you say, Google doesn’t prefer wordpress sites but because wordpress has plugins, rss, pings, blah blah blah…it gets indexed first and quicker! If this is true…isn’t WP better?

So is it a matter of symantics or are you just stating the obvious? The point is, you burn your hand because the water is hot…..or wordpress blogs get indexed quicker and can be construed as being favored by Google simply because they have all these gadgets that attract Google and Google likes. Bottom line, Wordpress blogs are better than static sites!

I think I understand what you’re trying to say and I agree with you. If you take a static site and make it do all the things that a wordpress site does, Google will notice it faster and it will get indexed and ranked quicker.

Personally, I prefer using Dreamweaver to build sites and have been using it for 6 or 7 years. Recently (2+ years ago) I’ve been introduced to Xsitepro. I really didn’t want to have anything to do with Xsitepro, however, I was creating graphics and minisites for a plr membership and they required Xsitepro for the minisite platform. After using it for a year, I began to get attached to it simply because you could make a site get spidered, indexed and in the SERPS within 24 hours, often times sooner.

Like Wordpress, Xsitepro automatically does things to the site structure and pages to create an seo optimized website and webpage. However, you use other features such as create an xml feed (rss feed) sitemaps (standard and xml). I’ve found that doing just these 2 additional things and then submitting the feed to rss directories will get a webpage or site spidered and indexed in Goolge in less than 24 hours.

Yep, an Xsitepro site in the serps in under 24 hours. Often times the same time or less than a wordpress site, if I don’t use my Auto Social Poster plugin, the wordpress site does not get indexed in less than 24 hours.

So….in many words and in many ways I completely agree with you. Wordpress sites don’t experience the quick ratings simply because they are Wordpress sites, but because of all the processes involved when creating wordpress sites. Apply those same processes to any static site and you should experience the same results as any wordpress site!

Thanks again,

Scott

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If you hit ambitions of effort a job as a professional scheme designer, it probably essential to see how to use Adobe Dreamweaver (previously known as “Macromedia Dreamweaver”). This is because the program is not only a mart leader, but is also effectively the defacto standard for creating and designing scheme pages and scheme pages. Of course, Dreamweaver is not meet for professional scheme designers – anybody who wants to make a scheme site or scheme page, including of instruction entrepreneurs and owners of diminutive businesses, crapper benefit from the software.

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best results with the software. This is because, although Dreamweaver has a well thought-out and relatively decent individual interface, the code does allow many powerful features, and meet effort familiar with them all crapper take whatever time. Additionally, patch most grouping hit whatever experience of feeding the web, not everybody has created a scheme page before – and the latter rattling does involve a different artefact of looking at things as compared to the former.

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If you are considering antiquity your own website and do not undergo anything most antiquity or designing websites the alacritous way to see is effort involved with a tutorial of some kind. Learn from somebody that already knows how things are finished and just follow their examples as you start antiquity your website. There are digit way to go, you can encounter a e-book Dreamweaver course or a Video course where Dreamweaver is explained.

Both ways module impact it all up to you to encounter the prizewinning way that module help you get started the fastest, I hit included a few mistakes that you poverty to avoid when antiquity your first website with dreamweaver.

1) Splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website, normally with a bounteous image or something same this. These pages does not attain much sense when antiquity your place as you always hit to keep in mind how does navigation works for my visitors and how does search engines same Google see my page. So if you can avoid it do not attain a

slush page as your index.htm page.

2) Banner advertisements

If you poverty to attain money with your website, then AdSense module attain the most sense for your users, banner ads takes up a lot of space and history tells us that people do no utter on them. So don’t waist your space on banner ads.

3) Clear navigation

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4) Clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you module poverty to attain sure they undergo which part of the place they are in at that moment. That way, they module be healthy to feeding germane information or navigate to some country of the place easily. Don’t tack your visitors because confusion means “abandon ship”!

5) Avoid using frequence on your site

People module leave your place if they get blasting frequence from your place and they hit to jump to invoke down their speakers so avoid frequence on your site.

So use the Dreamweaver tutorial to see website antiquity and saves alot of money by doing it yourself. Even if you don’t undergo HTML or anything most antiquity your own website you can see it really alacritous by using an online tutorial.

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How to create rollover buttons in Fireworks CS4 and export to Dreamweaver cs4

A Fireworks CS4 tutorial to create rollover button images that we can export to dreamweaver to use for our side navigation bar. Those of you who are following this fireworks tutorial using fireworks CS3, will still be able to follow along!

It will serve you well to first plan what buttons you are going to need, what you are going to name them and how are you going to save them. What I mean by saving your images is that you will be creating rollover buttons which can have up to 4 states! There is an Up state, Over state, Down state and an Over while down state. And these all need saving in a logical way because you will find it so much easier to find the buttons you need when inserting them in Dreamweaver or your website. Let’s look at the states:

Up State:
how the button looks when you first load a page

Over State:
how the button looks when a person rollovers over the button with their mouse

/> Down State:
how the button looks after a user has clicked on it

Over while down State:
How the button looks when someone rolls over the button with their mouse

Now that we know about the possible states we can create for our Fireworks Rollover Buttons. How do we save our rollover buttons efficiently? A good suggestion would be to work a system that you will use for all future rollover states that you create. So for instance, If you have created a button called home, And you have created four states for it, you can save and export them like this:

home_up

home_over

home_down

home_overdown

Ok so first things first, let’s open up a new canvas. Go to:

File>New – or – shift + Ctrl N

Now, I’m going to make the canvas width 165px or pixels. And that’s the same width as the rollover buttons we’ll be creating in this fireworks tutorial. I find that 165 pixels is about the right width for my rollover buttons. I’m also going to specify the height of the canvas, which is also the height of my rollover buttons and ill make that 31px or pixels. Later, we’ll be exporting the confines of the canvas as a Jpeg image and each rollover image we create in Fireworks, will be the same dimensions.

Your resolution in Fireworks should be set to 72 pixels so make sure that it is. The background can be whatever colour you wish as the whole area within your Fireworks canvas will be covered anyway.

Now click> OK.

So, our Fireworks canvas is set. All we have to do now is style the canvas area and make our rollover buttons. The first thing I’m going to do is go to the vector toolset which is located on the left of your Fireworks screen.

There is an icon there which by default is set in the shape of a rectangle. This is called the rectangle tool. If you cannot see a rectangle then if you press ‘U’ on your keyboard the shape will change and select the rectangle tool that way. NB when you click and hold down on the rectangle tool icon it will bring up other shapes to choose from.

We’re going to be using the rectangle tool on this occasion. We’re going to draw a rectangle around the canvas. It doesn’t matter which size you make the rectangle but the important thing is that it covers the whole canvas which in my case is 165px X 31px.

If you look in the properties inspector you notice that you can change many aspects of the vector rectangle. For instance you can change the fill colour and you can specify a border or stroke and colours for them too. You can change the width, height, edge, texture and even the roundness of the vector you have drawn. There are many other options and the team at Adobe have made Fireworks very user friendly when it comes to proto-typing web graphics which is great for all budding web designers.

Were now going to add a gradient to the vector rectangle and well do that from the properties inspector.

The rectangle should be set as a solid so if you click where it says solid you can choose gradient from the list of options. Then select the linear gradient option. You will see that a gradient has been applied to the rectangle. Now select the pointer black pointer tool which looks like an arrow. With the pointer tool selected you can now grab hold of the arm of the gradient by left clicking and holding your mouse button down. Now you can drag the arm of the gradient to adjust it to exactly how you want it to be.

I’m going to adjust the arm of the gradient so the button looks almost like its 3 Dimensional.

In the properties inspector you can also change the colour of the gradient. In my case the gradient goes from black to white and can you specify what colours you want your gradient to have. You can do that by clicking on the gradient window located next to the paint bucket icon in the properties inspector. You can slide the swatch panels left and right to fine tune your gradient. If you click inside the middle of a swatch panel (they look like little houses with pointed roofs.) you can bring up the colour selector tool and change the colours to best match your website. You can also choose some preset colours gradients from the drop down menu which come with Fireworks.

Once your happy with your button its time to add some text. Lets go back to the vector toolset and select the Text icon which looks like a capital T.

Now place your cursor inside of the canvas area where your fireworks rollover button will be, and type the word ‘home’ or whatever you want to call your first rollover button image. Once again you can adjust the text down in the properties inspector.

When we’re happy with our Up State we can now proceed and duplicate the button 3 more times to create our rollover button effects. I tend not to bother with an over while down state as it’s an effect which the end user, your audience will hardly notice. So if you want to you can duplicate the sate only 2 more times. The great thing about duplicating our rollover buttons is that we will get 3 copies of our original rollover button and we can make subtle or extreme changes to these other rollover states which go towards animating our buttons on our website.

So lets go over to our states panel located on the right side of the Fireworks screen. If you cannot see the states panel you can go to Window>States from the menu bar or press Shift + F2 and that will bring up the states panel for you.

Right click on State 1 which you should see inside the states panel now select Duplicate State from the menu.

We will duplicate the state ‘after the current state. If you are making a full navigation bar with 4 states then you need to duplicate the state 3 times, if you are making rollover buttons just with and up state and over state then you want to duplicate the state 1 more time obviously. Now that you have duplicated your first fireworks rollover button image you can now make changes to the other buttons. You can apply filters and colour effects, or simply change the text colour. This is all done from the properties inspector.

So now click on state 2 from the states panel and you will see the same image as your up state rollover button. Make a change to that copy of the state by say changing the text colour and then click on state 3 and adjust that one too. It’s important to make sure that you don’t move the text unless of course you intend to do that as part of the styling of the rollover buttons.

Once you are happy with how your buttons look, you can export the buttons as jpegs or whatever image format you prefer. If your button doesn’t have complex blending or lots of detail you can export the buttons at a lower quality. My default on Fireworks is set to Jpeg 80 but a lot of the time I reduce the quality of the buttons to around Jpeg 50. This can save your audience a lot of page load time. After all you don’t want a laggy site do you?

The optimize panel should be just above your states and layers panels. If you cannot see the optimize panel, you can go to window>Optimize or by pressing F6. When you reduce the quality it will also tell you how long in Kb it will take to load. The smaller the quality of your rollover buttons faster the load time on your site. Don’t get too caught up in load times. Were only talking milliseconds here but every little helps so compromise and don’t upload PNG files unless its absolutely necessary because the files are much larger than that of a Gif or Jpeg file.

I really hope you have enjoyed this Fireworks tutorial on how to create rollover buttons.

James Brand

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Getting started with your first web page can seem very daunting indeed. Macromedia Dreamweaver is the industry leader in web editors, but knowing where to start and what you need to know can be a little confusing at first.

If you are serious about web development, it is probably best to start off with Dreamweaver. There are other easier alternatives, such as Microsoft Frontpage which are fine for the novice web developers, but the package does lack a lot of advanced features. Once you are happy with your chose of web editor, it is then advisable to become familiar with its user environment.

Dreamweaver has what is known as a ‘What You See Is What You Get’ (WYSIWYG) environment. This means that you can easily drag and drop visually elements onto the screen. Dreamweaver 8 is the latest version and although it will look a little strange at first, you will notice that it has a similar look and feel to many other windows applications.

Now that you are familiar with the environment, you are ready to start developing…

HTML – Don’t Worry About this, Quite Yet!
What is HTML I hear you ask? HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is the coding language used to construct web pages.

Fortunately, Dreamweaver’s WYSIWYG environment has two views for developing a web page – a design view and a coding view. Beginners often start off using the design view, which requires no HTML knowledge. Objects can be dragged and dropped onto the design view and it can be used in many ways similar to a word processor like Microsoft Word.

Once you become proficient in the design view, you can then start to use the code view where you will be required to have some knowledge of HTML. This is where the real web developing starts!

If at this stage you require more help, there are a variety of

Macromedia Dreamweaver training courses based in the UK for introduction, intermediate and advanced levels to suite just about everyone’s ability – so if you want to push your Dreamweaver and HTML skills to the next level, instructor-led Dreamweaver training may be just the ticket for you!

Page Design and Layout
Before developing your page, you should be absolutely sure what it is that you want your page to do and who the intended audience is. Initially it is often wise to sketch the look of the page on a piece of paper.

You may then wish to dedicate some time to the organisation of your home page. This should include self descriptive navigational links and the content layout should be clutter free. This will allow customers to easily find what they are looking for, resulting in potentially higher sales of products and services or from a non commercial point of view, better access to your information.

Publish Your Web Page
Once you have added content to your website, you are then ready to publish it on the World Wide Web! You will require a web server to host the site, along with a web address. Both can be acquired for no or low charge on the Internet. These online hosting web sites are aimed at the first time home developers and often have large numbers of adverts.

If the website is of a commercial nature, it is advised to go with a web hosting company with a good reputation and this will involve monthly subscription fees. It is also recommended that you purchase a web site domain.

Once you have a web address to host your website and have spent some time developing the home page, you will then be ready to publish your site online!
Macromedia Dreamweaver makes publishing web pages a real breeze.

Hopefully you have found this article informative and useful. This article is not intended as a technical resource on how to use Dreamweaver, but more of a general overview of how Dreamweaver can be used and the processes involved in creating web pages.

If you require more technical assistance Macromedia has excellent self taught tutorials supplied with the product and there is also a wealth of resources online.

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Upgrade to Dreamweaver CS3? Or stick with Dreamweaver 8? This is a question that many web designers who own Dreamweaver 8 are asking themselves as they consider whether it would be worth their money or their web design company?s money to upgrade their design software. Since it is your job as a web designer to work with the software in question, the onus of deciding whether the new version will improve service and overall work quality or not. Many web designers are also wary of the fact that Macromedia has been acquired by Adobe and are wondering whether the new owners have improved or destroyed this piece of software. It is my opinion that there is no clear choice between the two. The choice you eventually make must be determined by what you require from your design software.

Web design feature #1: Adobe and Dreamweaver Together
Some web design companies may find the integration between the new Dreamweaver software and existing Adobe tools a good enough reason to purchase the Dreamweaver CS3. Images can easily be transferred from one software to another and some designers find this feature very attractive.

Web design feature #2: CSS Support Made Better
Designers will likely find that one of the best new features of Dreamweaver CS3 are the fresh and improved CSS layouts. The software code contains detailed commentaries related to how these layouts function so understanding how to use them is a relatively simple affair. There are currently 32 different layouts to choose from, in 1, 2, or 3-column designs, and in fixed or liquid design layouts. The starting position of the CSS is easily defined and subsequent movement is also simple and easy. Designers can simply style the tag directly into the

HTML through a style attribute, then transfer it to their style sheet. In Dreamweaver CS3, ?Convert Inline CSS to Rule? appears on a single right click of the tag and a custom class for that particular style or a full CSS selector is easily created.

Web design feature #3: Mobile Support
The incorporation of Adobe Device Central into Dreamweaver CS3 also makes designing pages for viewing on mobile platforms much easier than before. Although use of the mobile platform to view web pages has become increasingly popular, it was previously a rather challenging task to design pages that are compatible for viewing on both a mobile platform and a web browser one. Dreamweaver CS3 makes those challenges a thing of the past.

Web design feature #4: Ajax Implementation Now Made Possible
Adding Ajax widgets and effects to the web pages that you create is now possible through the incorporation of the Spry framework in to Dreamweaver CS3. A simple drag and drop operation will deposit them into your dataset. Transition effects such as shrinking, growing, highlighting and fading, integration of XML feed data and widgets for tables lists and forms are just some of the features of Spry that have been included in Dreamweaver CS3.

Web design feature #5: XLST Support
XLST support is a major feature of CS3 and both you and your design company will be delighted by the support included through the use of XML files as the database source. Viewing of the XML and integration into any HTML documents are made easy through XLST. Web designers who possess XML files of the same format can easily create a single template for them by using XLST.

Web design feature #6: Support for Mac Intel Processors
CS3 is now also native to the Intel-based Macintosh platform, and load times have been significantly reduced. The company behind CS3 claims that, whereas Dreamweaver 8 previously required four minutes to load, CS3 now accomplishes the same feat in under one minute. However, these claims have yet to be verified by proper testing.

To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade
The question does not have an easy answer. Personally, I chose to upgrade and have not looked back since. The new CSS features, XLST support and Device Central are all wonderful new additions to the software. However, live databases and server side scripts are still difficult to use with Dreamweaver CS3 and this may discourage web design companies from purchasing the software. If, at the end of it all, you choose to upgrade, it is unlikely that you will regret the money spent.

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