Choosing a Blog or Content Management System (CMS): Comparing WordPress,...
Here’s a quick look at a few of the most popular blogging programs and open source Content Management Systems (CMSs) and why you might choose one over another. A good CMS or blogging program can be...
View ArticleWhy you need a web server to run WordPress or any other CMS
If you’ve ever tried to view or edit a template for a WordPress blog, Joomla site, or other dynamic technology in a program like Adobe Dreamweaver, you probably didn’t get what you were hoping for —...
View ArticleHow to set up a local web server to edit WordPress on your computer
As promised, here are step-by-step instructions for setting up your computer as a Web server so that you can run — and edit — WordPress themes on your local computer. Note: Only Dreamweaver CS5 and...
View ArticleAdding email forms, subcription forms, and more with Dreamweaver
The tutorial that appears below is about creating your own form in Dreamweaver and using it with an email script hosted on your own server. When I wrote that tutorial a few years ago, using a script...
View ArticleThe advantages of a CMS(content management system)
When you store all of your goodies (the photos, posts, and such) that you display on your web pages in a database, you gain the ability to create web pages dynamically — as they are served to the...
View ArticleHow creating a blog is like buying a prefabricated house
The advantage of a blog is that you can start your blog site with all the dynamic functionality prebuilt for you. Seemingly all you have to do with most blog programs (including Blogger, WordPress and...
View ArticleHTM-what? Do I have to learn HTML or XHTML?
Although you don’t have to learn HTML to create web pages in Dreamweaver, having a basic concept of how it works does come in handy. If at first glance you think that XHTML code looks like...
View ArticleHow to Test a Website in Different Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox,...
It’s a shocking scenario: You create a page design that looks just perfect in your favorite web browser on your own computer. You publish it on the Internet and tell all your friends. And the next...
View ArticleNever have an outdated copyright date again
Ever notice how many websites and blogs have a copyright message at the bottom of the page that is still set to last year — or worse, several years ago? Here’s a quick easy trick to make sure that...
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