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.
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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.
Tags: adsense, dreamweaver, dwt, free template
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.
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We did this affiliate marketing website template because we see way too many really bad squeeze pages. We don’t care for squeeze pages to begin with, but we thought we could at least help some affiliate marketers make a better presentation.
It basically takes the concept of the squeeze page and applies some eye candy to it. There are multiple box styles, a page curl box, formatted blockquote for testimonials, a photo testimonial format, a styled opt-in email form, a coupon-style box and more.
We had fun doing this template and we got a little humorous with the template preview. Just don’t take any of the information seriously please. You can preview FreshSqueeze or go to our website templates page for more information and templates.
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, squeeze page, templates
Yup, another free Dreamweaver template! This one has a motorcycle theme, but can easily be customized to any other theme or color scheme. As with our other free Dreamweaver templates, High Velocity includes the Dreamweaver dwt template file, all the template images, pure CSS navigation, the original vector Fireworks document including all image slices, is Google AdSense-ready and is valid XHTML 1.0.
Preview or download High Velocity on our free templates page.
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We were busy over the weekend and created two more free Dreamweaver templates. DotCom and Fruit Company are XHTML valid templates with CSS navigation, AdSense-ready, and have pre-styled elements included in the templates. The Dreamweaver dwt files are included as well as the original Fireworks vector artwork used to create the templates.
Preview or download our two new templates on our Dreamweaver templates page.
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Since we couldn’t find any decent free Dreamweaver templates that were actually DESIGNED for Dreamweaver, we’re creating our own. The first template is posted on the site on our templates page and can be previewed before download.
We went a step farther and included the Fireworks file that we created the template images in. That way, not only do you have a plug-and-play Dreamweaver template that includes pre-coded editable regions, you also have the native image files to customize the template however you wish.
Check it out and let us know if there’s anything missing or added features we can build into our next template.
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With video being all the rage, posting YouTube videos on your website can increase your visitor retention and you can broadcast streaming video without burdening your hosting server since the video is fed from the YouTube servers. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to embed a YouTube video into your Dreamweaver website.
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Including an RSS feed in a blog is a simple process, but how do you include an RSS feed in a Dreamweaver website? Tom Muck explains the process of building an RSS feed using Dreamweaver’s built-in XSL tools for transforming an XML data feed into HTML over at CommunityMX.
Whether you can tell or not, many popular websites use grid-based design to layout their sites. Grid design helps designers understand and visualize the relationship between content and whitespace and how to best position elements to achieve a positive user experience. Vandelaydesign has an excellent post on grid resources with links to the most useful articles, tutorials and tools for learning how to effectively use grid-based design.
