Carbonite offsite backup service can save your hide
Posted on November 24, 2008
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How much to you backup your files? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Hardly ever?
I unfortunately was a member of that last category up until about two weeks ago. At “the real job”, I lost a directory on one of our server hard drives that contained a ton of data that wasn’t in our routine daily backup. The data should never have been put there in the first place, but our network file sharing practices do not follow the most strict standards.
I got to thinking about the gigs and gigs of data on my home system which was occassionally backed up to an external hard drive. If I lost the data on my drives say in a catastrophic loss such as a fire, what would I do? I didn’t have any kind of off-site backup plan and even though I had sporadic backups on some external drives, what good would that do me if my house burned down?
I bought a cool LaCie 1TB external USB 2.0 drive from Buy.com for the purpose of having enough drive space to backup all my internal drives onto one drive. The drive showed up and it had a free year subscription to Carbonite which I had never heard of until I got the drive. I figured I’d give it a shot since I didn’t have any off-site backups. Read more
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 now available for purchase
Posted on September 23, 2008
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Dreamweaver CS4 released!
You can now buy and download the final release version of Dreamweaver CS4 , so visit Adobe’s Dreamweaver page for upgrade or full version pricing.
Get the upgrade or full version or buy Dreamweaver as part of Web Standard, Web Premium, Design Premium or Master Collection. Any way you get it, CS4 is a significant upgrade to prior versions.
New Dreamweaver extension for creating WordPress themes
Posted on July 30, 2008
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ThemeDreamer is a new extension for Dreamweaver that enables anyone to create custom WordPress themes. The extension works by combining all the individual WordPress files such as index.php, sidebar.php and footer.php into one complete blog page in Dreamweaver’s design view. ThemeDreamer also renders the page with simulated blog data so you can see the different page elements such as images, unordered lists, paragraphs and more.
Prior to ThemeDreamer, the method of customizing a WordPress theme in Dreamweaver consisted of copying the browser source code into a new Dreamweaver document, linking the stylesheets, editing the code, previewing, editing the actual WordPress file code, uploading, previewing again… you get the point. ThemeDreamer actually allows you to edit your blog in a WYSIWYG format in Dreamweaver’s design view. Read more
Installing PHP and MySQL on Windows XP and Windows Vista
Posted on July 23, 2008
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Setting up PHP and MySQL on Windows XP and Windows Vista allows you to test your dynamic websites prior to uploading to your web server. WebAssist’s Mark Fletcher demonstrates how to set up and configure PHP and MySQL on your local Windows machine through WebAssist’s popular solution recipe videos. Simply click here (opens new window) and the two installation videos are towards the top of the page.
InMotion Hosting - A pleasant surprise in the world of web hosting
Posted on July 15, 2008
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I don’t blog much about web hosting, mainly because it’s kind of boring and there just isn’t much meat to it. You get an account, you upload files, you hope you don’t need tech support. That’s about it.
I had an experience last week that I just felt compelled to blog about. It wasn’t life changing or anything, but I actually found a hosting company, actually they found me, that knew what customer service was all about. The company is InMotion Hosting out of Marina del Ray, California. One of their marketing people contacted me about placing some advertising on my site for their hosting plans. I was curious about the company since I had never heard of them and I issued a challenge to them. I told Darin, the marketing guy, that I would sign up for one of their accounts and if I was satisfied with the service and support, I would work with them. Read more
WordPress 2.5 Image Uploading Problem Fix
Posted on June 19, 2008
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I’ve come across many blog and forum posts about the image uploading problem in WordPress 2.5. When you try to upload an image, you may receive an error that reads “HTTP error” and in the Crunching dialog “An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later.”
There are several fixes floating around for the image upload error, so I thought I’d post the most common fixes. Read more
Big Savings on WebAssist Dreamweaver Extensions through June 27!
Posted on June 9, 2008
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Through June 27, 2008, WebAssist is having their Summer Sale. Take 50% off any of their Dreamweaver extensions for savings up to $450!
WebAssist extensions make dynamic Dreamweaver development easier by doing most of the coding for you. Create full-featured websites from scratch and build extensive database-driven sites without having to touch the code. For more information and to view Summer Sale pricing, visit WebAssist.
Download Dreamweaver CS4 beta at Adobe Labs
Posted on May 30, 2008
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UPDATE: Adobe has announced September 23, 2008, as the date of the official unveiling of Creative Suite 4. They will announce the actual release dates of the Suite at that time. You can register for a special web broadcast of the announcement and Creative Suite 4 features at Adobe.com.
Adobe Labs has just released beta versions of both Dreamweaver CS4 and Fireworks CS4. The beta versions can be used for two days unless you provide a valid CS3 serial number which will extend the beta until the final release date. Read more
FreshSqueeze - A free affiliate marketing squeeze page template
Posted on May 7, 2008
Filed Under Affiliate Marketing, Dreamweaver Design | 3 Comments
If you’ve been on the web for more than 10 minutes, you’ve probably seen some really bad squeeze pages created by affiliate marketers. For those who don’t know what a squeeze page is, it’s simply a page that has limited or no navigation and the primary purpose is to drive the reader to your offer and either get them to subscribe to your email list (usually for a free eBook or PDF download) or to convert a sale or click-through to your affiliate.
The text is massive, bright yellow highlighting is overused and they try to convey a personal touch by adding a script signature at the bottom with multiple testimonials and claims of how their product will change your life. We’re not crazy about these pages, we’re just trying to make them a little more attractive. Read more
Free website templates that ROCK!
Posted on May 2, 2008
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There are a lot of places you can get free website templates on the web, some are OK and are just downright bad. There are very few places, however, where you can download templates that are made specifically for Dreamweaver. Of these, there are none that 1) look good 2) W3C validate and 3) include the source graphics file to make customizing the graphics easy.
All that has now changed! JustDreamweaver has released a bunch of brand new free website templates that are almost all exclusively built for Dreamweaver, include the .dwt file, are XHTML 1.0 valid, are AdSense-ready and INCLUDE the original Fireworks files with all the vector images, slices and optimization.
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