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I use Dreamweaver in a way that I need the <s> command constantly. As far as I can tell, the only ways to make that line appear through the text is by manually coding it in or my using the dropdown menu. Those are both really inconvenient. Is there any way to add a strikethrough button to a toolbar menu? Alternatively, is there a keystroke that could do it for me?

Those tags are deprecated in HTML 4.0.1, meaning they may become obsolete in future versions of HTML. Use CSS to do that:

<style type="text/css">
.strike { text-decoration: line-through; }
</style>

Have you tried using the Redo Command to see if it would work. My editor has code snippets which are easily added when I need them. Must be the reason why I haven’t opened my DW in ages.

Actually, by default Dreamweaver does not use the traditional <b> and <i> HTML tags for bold and italic, respectively. Instead it uses <strong> and <em> (for emphasis). The latter tags are preferred as part of best practices, because they are better handled by screen readers used by visually impaired users. If you want to switch Dreamweaver back to using <b> and <i>, choose Edit > Preferences (Dreamweaver > Preferences), and in the General category of the Preferences dialog, deselect "Use <strong> and <em> in place of <b> and <i>."

Ron

I’m developing a website using Dreamweaver CS3, the pages all have the same wudgets on (flickr & twitter) and as a result, I’d prefer that the whole page not need to reload when user clicks on navigation. Is there a way that I could have only part of the page load different content?

Just open new instances

I have to work on a website, but im not sure how to edit a website through dreamweaver. Im taking over from someone who was fired, but I dont know what they were using before, and there is no way to find out. Do I need another program so that I can get into the site or something?

Hi! I am intrigued to know why your colleague got fired But on with the answer. I gather that the site is still up and running? Well, before you can access it you will need to know a few things :-
1. Who is hosting the site ( the ISP - Internet Service Provider )
2. The server ID plus the person’s login and password - if you ain’t got these then you are stuffed pretty much I am sorry to say. I do not know if the site was created in Dreamweaver or not - so this answer may be a tad generic if you know what I mean?

I do not know if you have access to the computer in your work where the guy kept all the files for the site but if you have then you will have to open them up ( assuming they have not been created using Dreamweaver ) copy each file and paste it into Dreamweaver. Now you may have a prob with the graphics as their paths may be all to pot - delete all the rubbish from their paths so you just have for example, picture1.gif. If the pics are impossible to get right then you will have to use something like Snagit to capture them from the site - Snagit has a trial period so you can use it to sort your website out without having to pay for it.

If in the unlikely event the guy has lost or taken away the details of the ISP, then there is another way to do this. Bring the site up then right click and view the source code. Copy and paste this directly into Dreamweaver. If the graphics have gone follow the above. Once you have the files in Dreamweaver it should be easy enough for you to edit the site. You will then have to find a new ISP or use the same one if you know who it is. The trouble with this method is that if you have to move ISP then you will need to transfer the domain name of your site. To do this you will need to request a MAC number from the old ISP in order for you to transfer the domain - they have to give it to you so don’t take any crap of them.

Hope that helped a bit.

Good luck!
J

I’m not very experienced whilst using Dreamweaver, but I know that there is somehow a way I can put a scrollbox into my table. Can anyone give me a simple step by step guide so that I can make this work?

In design view, select:

Insert > Form > Textarea

That will insert a scrollable text box for a form. There is a way to do it in CSS as well but I’m not sure what your trying to do.

What is the primary folder that contains all files that make up a site in Dreamweaver?

it depends where you saved your website project. when creating a project it will ask you where to save it.

Just like the question said: I need to publish my site from Dreamweaver MX and later burn the finished site onto a CD but I don’t know how [to publish the site in a way I can burn it onto a CD]! Immediate help would be very much appreciated!

You need a web hosting service compatible with dreamweaver.

Just refer to:
http://www.threehosts.com/dreamweaver

Another useful link:
http://www.threehosts.com/build
There you can find a step-by-step guide to start your website with more details.

Hope This Helps.

There’s no option under preferences that I see; I can’t see dreamweaver listed in the "Default programs" in Win7 either. Heck, even Microsoft office or any other programs on my machine do not show up there (in the manage default programs). Anyhow, how do I make Dw default for all file types that Dw can handle?

gl

Does it have a certain format of video to play when using Dreamweaver?

A quick glance at the present-day internet would seem to indicate that Adobe Flash is the obvious choice for embedding video in a web page.

You can use FLV as the video format to be embedded to web page. To add FLV video to web page, you also need a web-based FLV player.

If you don’t have a Flash tool, you can check Moyea Web Player. It is a quick solution to add flash video (FLV) to website and an easy-to-use Web FLV player creator, with which, customizing skinning streaming FLV player and FLV player (flash video player) for website only needs a few mouse-clicks. And the created player can be easily edited via flashvars code.
Here is its official website:
http://www.playerdiy.com/
And this is tutorial -
http://www.playerdiy.com/support/tutorial/customize-flash-video-player.html
Customize the skin and playback options of web FLV player:
http://www.playerdiy.com/configuration/

I am trying to make a website. I have a template already that I made one Photoshop but I want to get it onto Dreamweaver without slicing. I only have Photoshop Elements so there is no slicing. I know there is a way to do it but I just don’t know how to.

Well…Photoshop makes images. If you save it as a common image type, you can easily use it with any website. You might want to use GIMP to do the slicing.

I made a website in Dreamweaver CS4, but my client doesn’t have the software. The website is built from a Dreamweaver template that I made, and it has Editable Regions in all of the pages. How can the client edit the website without having the Dreamweaver CS4 software?

If they know html, they can edit it in Notepad, or any other text editor.