The best way to make your site search-engine friendly is to design your site so that it’s easy for search engines to ”read” your pages—doing things like adding alternative text behind your images and using the meta description tag. In this tutorial, you’ll find a few search engine optimization (SEO) tips and discover the features in Dreamweaver that will best serve your SEO efforts. 1 NEVER LEAVE A PAGE UNTITLED When you create a new [...]

Creating a graphic calendar by hand is not an easy task. That is why it is best if you can find some way of automating the process. In today’s tutorial we will show you how to generate a full year, custom background calendar using JavaScript. If you’re a bit of a computer programmer, that is great, if not, don’t worry this will be pretty straightforward. Step 1 According to Adobe, a script is a series [...]

Designing a website isn’t just all graphics and strings of code, it takes style. This means that with most websites you come across, you’re bound to see a certain style being implemented or adapted. With these styles designers and others are able to reach a broader crowd and extend their brands or portfolios to the possibility of being recognized by potential clients. There are a variety of different styles, and with it being just as [...]

If you’re a Twitter user, it was difficult not to be aware of Adobe’s CS5 global launch presentation. While they did an excellent job of promoting Photoshop and Flash, other applications, such as Dreamweaver, only received limited coverage. Nonetheless, take a look at some of the awesome new features in Dreamweaver CS5, slated to be released in mid-May. 1. BrowserLab Integration Adobe, for some time now, has offered a helpful, and free, service called Browserlab. [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Understanding the fundamental process of creating an icon in Photoshop can become a valuable skill to learn. Today we will be creating a chalkboard icon inspired the Icon Resource website by Sebastiaan de With, whom has given permission to make a tutorial inspired by his work. In this tutorial you will learn some important concepts as well as how to work with some third-party apps. Step 1 Create a [...]

One of the biggest challenges that online businesses face today is maintaining relevance in the eyes of the search engines, especially Google. With Google controlling more than 90% of the search traffic in the US alone, it’s not surprising that the most important goal of any web-based marketing strategy is to be number one in Google. It’s a well-established principle that on-site SEO is one of the most basic building blocks every business needs to [...]