Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Ryan
Trellian is our new free Dreamweaver template and it comes with sweet CSS navigation courtesy of CSS Menu Writer. We wanted to showcase a few of our favorite Dreamweaver extensions, so we also generated the XHTML page structure in CSS Sculptor. The template is tableless and includes a multi-level CSS menu that can be easily customized in the code.
If you do your own website design, we highly recommend both CSS Sculptor and CSS Menu Writer. It’s truly amazing how quickly you can generate standards compliant site structure and navigation. What used to take the most time in developing a new site has been reduced to a matter of minutes so we can focus more on the eye candy and content.
You can preview the Trellian template or download it from our Dreamweaver templates page.
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Ryan
We’ve posted a collection of pure CSS website layouts for download that we created with the CSS Sculptor Dreamweaver extension in order to showcase it’s speed and flexibility. We created over 25 layouts that all validate as XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1 in less than 30 minutes! Full Story →
Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Ryan
Mozilla Developer Center has announced a release date of June 17th for Firefox 3.0. They are aiming to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. You can pledge your download here and be part of history when Firefox 3.0 is released!
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Ryan
We just completed a new WordPress theme called ModXBlog (we don’t know why). It’s a really clean theme that has a lot of nice touches added. It’s AdSense-ready so you can immediately start making a few bucks with your blog and it has three different widget-ready sidebar areas.
It comes pre-coded for use with Breadcrumb-NavXT and Rob Marsh’s Post Plugin Library. The single post pages support Rob’s Similar Posts plugin by default, so make sure you activate that plugin when you install the blog. If you don’t, no big deal, the related posts area just won’t show up under the posts.
We’re going to build on this one in the future, with different color schemes and subject themes so check back soon for more downloads.
You can preview ModXBlog or download it here.
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Ryan
Summer Sale Extended through July 4th!!
WebAssist is having their Summer Sale through July 4, 2008, so now’s the time to buy some great Dreamweaver extensions. Included in the sale is WebAssist’s new CSS Menu Writer extension that makes CSS drop-down menus a snap, Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for generating complete CSS website layouts and even their ultimate extension set, Super Suite , which includes every WebAssist Dreamweaver extension in one money-saving bundle.
Take advantage of this sale while it lasts, because pricing on WebAssist extensions doesn’t get any lower! No WebAssist coupon codes are needed to take advantage of this special discount pricing.
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Ryan
The beta release of Dreamweaver CS4 is available for download at Adobe Labs. The beta release is good for 2 days of tinkering unless you provide your serial number from Dreamweaver CS3, Creative Suite 3 Web Standard, Web Premium, or Design Premium. You can then get a serial for the Dreamweaver CS4 beta and it will be extended until the final release is made available. Full Story →
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Ryan
MixedMedia is a free 3-column WordPress theme that includes built-in support for affiliate advertising, widgets and these WordPress plugins:
- WP-pagenavi - adds pagination navigation to multiple-page categories and archives
- Sociable - styled to fit nicely in the theme
- Breadcrumb-NavXT - adds breadcrumb navigation to the top of pages you select
- Rob Marsh’s Post Plugin Library - included support for Similar Posts, Recent Posts and Recent Comments
The theme is extensively styled with three different widget sidebar positions: top, left and right. This theme is styled more in-depth than our other themes, and there are currently three different versions: blue, green and red.
To see all versions or download, click here.
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Ryan
We just posted the first of several free AdSense-ready Dreamweaver templates. AdSensation is a simple tableless layout that includes pre-styled code for the most popular AdSense ad block sizes. The template includes a prominant 728×90 leaderboard ad at the top of the page, a 160×600 skyscraper down the left sidebar and a 250×250 square block at the top of the content section. A CSS style is included for 428×60 banners and the code can easily be modified to fit any other AdSense ad size.
The navigation is pure CSS with code that is very easy to modify. The free template includes the original sliced and optimized Adobe Fireworks file, so creating a completely custom look should only take a matter of minutes.
Preview AdSensation
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Ryan
We’ve been hearing a lot about CSS Menu Writer over the last couple of months and it’s finally here. Just released by WebAssist, CSS Menu Writer takes the hassle out of creating CSS menu navigation in Dreamweaver.
Menu Writer is a Dreamweaver extension that creates horizontal or vertical website menus through a tabbed wizard interface, similar to CSS Sculptor. As with Sculptor, Eric Meyer had a hand in making sure Menu Writer menus are standards compliant and valid CSS and HTML. The extension installs just like any other in Dreamweaver, and is accessible through the WebAssist toolbar. Full Story →
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Ryan
We enjoy making Dreamweaver templates almost as much as WordPress themes. WordPress is a great blog platform to create themes for due to it’s simple code and the modularization of the page components. There are various ways to create a WordPress theme, but I prefer to use Dreamweaver for theme customizing.
It’s not difficult to customize a WordPress theme if you know a few shortcuts. If you prefer to code themes from scratch, there are several Dreamweaver WordPress extensions that simplify the task of inserting the required WordPress code. We have several listed on our WordPress tools page. The easiest way to create a custom theme for your blog is to download an existing theme that has the basic layout you want and customize the CSS and graphic elements to suit your needs. Full Story →
