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August 31, 2005
Rediscovering Snippets
I recently did a new installation of Dreamweaver, and lost all of my customizations that I had accumulated. In hindsight, I guess there are quite a few that I can live without... but there was one group of indispensible time-savers that I found worthwhile to add back in. Veteran users of DW know these little tools as 'snippets'....
August 25, 2005
Organizing, acquiring, and creating content for your website - Part Two
Clark Hall Now that we've reviewed and finalized our site map, it is time to start collecting and writing the content we need to build the site. Acquiring existing written content Some of the content you need probably exists already. For example we've decided to include course descriptions on our fictional cartooning site. These probably already exist in the General Bulletin, so you could just go there and copy and paste from that document. On the other hand you may find that you want to include more details than are available in the bulletin. In this case I would send...
Organizing, acquiring, and creating content for your website - Part One
Having reviewed our goals and those of our audience, we should now be at the stage where we have a list of content ideas. Some of these we've come up with on our own and some have been suggested by our prospective site visitors. If you are like me you may have these items scrawled out in no particular order on a legal pad, note cards, or the back of an unused airsickness bag. Now is the time to make sense of them. Organizing your content The first thing I try to do is arrange my items into logical...