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With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe’s Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more. To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to itThe Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.

• Takes you through your development environment set up
• Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications
• Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials

What youll learn

• How to set up your ideal development environment, using Mac OSX/Windows, Apache (and IIS on Windows,) Apache, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin
• Creating standards compliant web sites using CS3’s XHTML and CSS features
• Creating dynamic web applications using CS3’s PHP and Spry Ajax server behaviors
• Building several real world web site functions, such as form validation, random quote generator, search function,
• user management/login pages, dynamic Ajax gallery, and much more.
• Creating an interface design in Fireworks CS3 and importing it into Dreamweaver CS3.
• How use Dreamweaver CS3’s XML functionality, to consume RSS feeds, and create Spry data sets
• Using includes, templates and master detail pages.
• How to publish your site after you’ve created it

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Montastic is an extremely handy tool that monitors websites for you and lets you know when they go down.

This is great for developers who need to keep track of numerous sites (up to 100). Montastic checks your sites every 10 minutes and as soon as one or more sites go down, it will instantly send an email to you and up to five other people. Best of all, the service is completely free.

If you want something a bit more detailed, mon.itor.us offers more detailed stats and charts and allows you to monitor, amongst others, HTTP, FTP, Ping and POP. This service is also free

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Having a working knowledge of XHTML and CSS when developing applications is a big help in knowing what can be done client-side and what should be generated server-side.

Here are 3 brilliant examples of Bar Graphs made using CSS.

Basic CSS Bar Graph

Complex CSS Bar Graph

Vertical CSS Bar Graph

View the code of the examples @ Apples To Oranges >>>

If you design open source templates, of course you want them to be downloaded and used by other people. You can just upload them to your own site but in most cases they won’t be downloaded a lot of times. Probably the site is not so popular. There are some exclusions like Andreas Viklund’s site but not a lot of them.

One more way is to upload your template to special sites for such things. Let’s see what sites are that.

Read the full article @ mikeyarmish.com >>>