I'm fairly new to web design, but do far I've been able to do all that I want to with Dreamweaver, but I have two questions:
[first question resolved]
I've seen a few things done with images that I can't figure out how to do: Being locked into the bottom corners, and automatically resizing when the browser window resizes. Does anyone know how to do those?
For the video there should be an "insert video" button in some shape or form in Dreamweaver that you can press. Also, can I ask a question? Are you using the trial version of Dreamweaver? Because there are loads of good open-source HTML compilers out there
Or is there a Microsoft Expression Web Express with the new Visual Studio 2008 I don't know about? Personally I've always preferred Microsoft Expression Web over Adobe Dreamweaver.
No, I have the full Creative Suite 3 for OSX. For the insert video, does that allow me to add play/pause/etc into the video? How will the video run?
Hmmmm, I don't know to be honest. I barely ever used Dreamweaver
D4rk's your man for web design.
Also, I edited my post after you replied, but forgot you own a Mac
I've figured out the video and know how to work it. I still need the second question answered though.
embedded video is difficult to do as you'll probably want a flash-based implementation. Unfortunately it requires quite a bit of coding to start with, so in all honesty just use youtube.
And the resize as a browser resizes is also tricky for two reasons.
1. it would require javascript coding to work, no nice button to do it all for you
2. In any browser aside from safari, the image would look like crap if it's resized to anything other than it's native resolution (No other browser anti-aliases resized images)
What I do (in my test version, the one not publicly available) is let the page render and then use javascript to replace all the images with a GD rendered thumbnail of the image at a suitable size so as to avoid the anti-aliasing problem. but I only replace it once the thumbnail is created, to make it as seamless as possible.
embedded video is difficult to do as you'll probably want a flash-based implementation. Unfortunately it requires quite a bit of coding to start with, so in all honesty just use youtube.
And the resize as a browser resizes is also tricky for two reasons.
1. it would require javascript coding to work, no nice button to do it all for you
2. In any browser aside from safari, the image would look like crap if it's resized to anything other than it's native resolution (No other browser anti-aliases resized images)
What I do (in my test version, the one not publicly available) is let the page render and then use javascript to replace all the images with a GD rendered thumbnail of the image at a suitable size so as to avoid the anti-aliasing problem. but I only replace it once the thumbnail is created, to make it as seamless as possible.
Ah okay. Ironic how [me] is going to more than likely be using Safari as his default browser since he runs OS X. Unless he uses Firefox?
D4rk do you use Firefox all the time now? Didn't you used to be an IE fanboy?
Well I've found a good way to do what I need to do. Thanks for the help Comsic and D4rk.
D4rk do you use Firefox all the time now? Didn't you used to be an IE fanboy?
Not really, but IE runs quicker. Then safari came along which ran even quicker, but it lacked functionality.
I jumped to firefox because of the extentions for webdevelopment and never went back.