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Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual

Errata for Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date Submitted
Printed Page 218
Step 1 of the section "Using Graphics for Bulleted Lists"

It should say "Return to your text editor and the bg_images.html page" instead of "...the sidebar.html page".

Anonymous  May 18, 2011 
Printed Page 141
#8

I read the errata for this line and had a similar problem. I entered the name exactly as indicated (feature.css) but the file appeared as unnamed in the CSS panel. I re-did this 4 times and muddled my way through each time with the same result , having to figure out a work around - deleted the site and deleted the file from the local root folder and when prompted did not save. I eventually discovered by trial and error that entering the same name in the url field in the sub window would save the file properly. I think.
Everything seems to look correct but I'm not confident that there is not a problem that will surface later.

J. Paul Sokal  Feb 19, 2010 
Printed Page 14
Note - near the top

The note offers information about frames - at www.sawmac.com/missing/dw8/appc.pdf - which yields zilch.

Paulfolio  Nov 28, 2009 
Printed Page 68
Figure 2-2

I know you're trying to make a point about line breaks, but the sentence is properly "Hybrid potato is edible, farmer says." The comma, in conjunction with the line break, is correct.

Theresa Mesa  Sep 27, 2009 
Printed Page 823
Figure 23-25 (bottom)

The figure shows two recordsets and nine data fields, but in the instructions we have only chosen one recordset with three data fields.

Anonymous  Jun 14, 2009 
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section 6.3.3 (online at Safari.OReilly.com)

There is an incorrect image in the "WORKAROUND WORKSHOP
Watch Those Resize Handles!", which shows a color picker rather than anything useful in that context.

Anonymous   
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section 4.7.1 (online at Safari.OReilly.com)

"Name the site Introducing CSS, and then select the Chapter04 folder (inside the MM_DWCS3 folder). (In a
nutshell: choose Site rightwards double arrow New Site. In the Site Definition window, click the Advanced
tab, type CSS Tutorial into the Site Name field,..."

This paragraph instructs to name the site "Introducing CSS" then instructs to name it "CSS Tutorial".

Pick one.

Anonymous   
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section 3.2.2.2 (online at Safari.OReilly.com)

incorrect image in FAQ tip "When not to approach the insert bar":

shows browser size menu but talks about property|format menu

Anonymous   
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section 2.1.1 (online at Safari.OReilly.com)

Tip: If you like card games or just want to add a heart to a Web page without using a graphic, go to Code
view and type &hearts to get a heart character, &diams for a diamond, &spades for a spade, or &clubs for
a club.

this tip is missing the closing semicolon on all four codes:

♥
♦
♠
♣

Anonymous   
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9.12 paragraph 17 (in the tutorial)

In the CSS Style panel, click the New Style button. Create a new advanced style named #banner img, and
store it in the global.css style sheet.

the div id is not "#banner" but "#header"

Anonymous   
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11.5.1 number 14

Select the Advanced radio button; replace the text in the Selector box with #main-Content .question (make
sure to include the space character between #mainContent and question);

...inconsistently named id and class indicators
1. is it #main-Content or #mainContent (without the hyphen)
2. is it .question or question (without the period)

Of course, the reader can probably figure it out by going into the code, but that should not be necessary

Anonymous   
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11.5.3 number 5

Repeat step 18 on Section 11.5.2 to format the "What decade did you begin" label.

11.5.2 does not have a step 18

Anonymous   
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12.1 paragraph 2

"Spry framework for Ajax," Dreamweaver's

...

It's officially called the "Spry framework of Ajax"

choose one: 'for' or 'of'

I believe that 'for' is the correct usage. (it's what came up when I Googled 'Spray framework of Ajax')

Anonymous   
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tutorial for chapter 19: Section 19.8.1, item #6, and Section 19.8.2, #14

#6: User is instructed to 'Drag the "S" in the heading "Story Title" down and to the right until you've
selected the two paragraphs and red subhead. Stop just after selecting the final period in the last
paragraph.'
This is imprecise, and leads the user to drag content rather than placing the cursor before the "S" and
drag-selecting the content.

#14: User is instructed to link to a mis-named file, viz. 'Click the blue tab of the newly added
"relatedStory" editable region, and then type Water Farming Fun. Link this text to water_fun.html in the
site's root folder.'
The file is actually named 'farming_fun.html'

Anonymous   
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19.3.1 "the broken-link blues"

incorrect illustration included in FAQ box

Anonymous   
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tutorial for chapter 22: Section 22.2.4

"To begin, move the cosmo_store folder into the newly installed Web server's root folder. If you followed
the previous directions, the root folder on Windows should be in C:Program Filesxampphtdocs, while the
root folder for Macs is in Applications rightwards double arrow MAMP rightwards double arrow htdocs.
Place cosmo_shop inside the htdocs folder. To make sure you've set this up right, open a Web browser, and
then, in the Address bar, type http://localhost/cosmo_shop/. If a Web page appears, your Web server is
set up correctly."

User is instructed to move an incorrectly-named folder. 'cosmo_store' does not exist; it should read
'cosmo_shop'

Anonymous   
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Section 23.8, tutorial "Displaying Database Info

"The Bindings panel should look like Figure 23-25."

This is not a correct illustration for instructions the user has just received to set up an rsProducts
recordset.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 39
1st paragraph of note in middle of page

Type of error?
Full path to tutorials for dw cs3 not given. Path given is

www.sawmac.com/missing/dwcs3/.

Should be

www.sawmac.com/missing/dwcs3/tutorials/

Users who type in the given path get an error message and dw 8 tutorial

Anonymous   
Printed Page 61
Number 17 Paragraph

In the bold section it says ".... Click on the color box that appears to the right of Background
color ...."

It should say "left" not "right"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 130
Head for first new paragraph

Choose File > Check Browser Compatibility

should be

Choose File > Check Page

Anonymous   
Printed Page 130
4th line of the 1st paragraph under 2. choose file - check browser compatibility.

I have Dreamweaver CS3 The Missing Manual, Printing History: June 2007: First Edition.
I don't know if its been fixed already or not, but on page 130, under 2. Choose File - Check Browser Compatibility, the last sentence reads, "In either case, Dreamvweaver analyses the HTML and CSS for the page, and spits out the results in the Browser Compatibility tab of the Results panel (see Figure 4-9)." Figure 4-9 shows how to find the Check Browser Compatibility option in the drop down list from the Check Page tab, but doesn't show the Results Panel. Should the sentence refer to "(figure 4-10)" instead?

Anonymous   
Printed Page 154
2nd paragraph

In the link the word "missing" is missing.
The link http://www.sawmac.com/dwcs3/html should read http://www.sawmac.com/missing/dwcs3/html

Anonymous   
Printed Page 177
Figure 5-16

I don't get the "Selection Tab" when inserting a Spy Menu.

Is there some way to turn that on or otherwise select a Spry Menu?

WinXP Home XP2

Anonymous   
Printed Page 237
Last paragraph

In this chapter, the author states that it is not possible to make the background of your flash text/buttons/ etc, transparent. This is untrue.

The way to make the backgrounds of these files transparent is by going to the parameters option with the flash file selected. The parameter that is entered is "WMODE" and the Value is entered as "Transparent".

You will not be able to see this change however within the Dreamweaver application. You must preview the page in a browser to see that the backgrounds are indeed transparent.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 454
3.

After leaving the ID and Label fields blank and selecting the No Label Tag radio button (for the new
button) I clicked "OK" as stated. But before the button appears on the page I get another pop-up question
asking "Add Form Tag?" which is not discussed anywhere. It is a YES or NO option. Why does it ask this? I
assume the answer is no?

Anonymous   
Printed Page 704
Step 19. and Figure 19-20

(chapter 19, step 19) The book says... "Step 19. In the tag selector, click <body.twoColFixLtHdr>." The
tutorial file at this step shows <body.twoColFixLtHdr#> instead. The Tag Selector in Figure 19-20 is
missing the # as well.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 828
Step 4.

"{rsProducts.prodName}." should correctly be printed as "{rsProducts.productName}."

Anonymous   
Printed Page 831
Figure 23-31

There is an extra word in the SQL box that is not in the tutorial.

The last line in the SQL input box should read as follows:

FROM products, vendors

Figure 23-31 shows FROM categories, products, vendors

Anonymous   
Printed Page 832
Step 12. and Figure 23-32.

The second line in Step 12... "The Edit Variable window appears..." should say "The Add Variable window appears..." And
correspondingly the title bar on Figure 23-32 should be "Add Variable" and not "Edit Variable".

Anonymous   
Printed Page 832
Step 13.

The third line in step 13 starts "The Edit Variable box" but should read "The Add Variable box".

Anonymous   
Printed Page 836
Step 16.

"Click the Live Document View button"... should read as "Click the Live Data View button".

Anonymous   
Printed Page 837
Step 1.

1. Open the products.php page. This should say "Open the product.php page."

Anonymous   
Printed Page 837
Figure 23-35

There was no discussion on how the words "Price:", "Vendor:", and "Inventory Status:" were placed on the
page. Are these dynamically generated or simple HTML text?

Anonymous   
Printed Page 871
Step 17.

Where it says... repeat step 15... it should say "repeat step 16".

Anonymous   
Printed Page 874
The NOTE after step 6.

It would be extremely helpful if you just explained that by simply replacing the temporary file name at
the end of your browser's URL to add.php ... and THEN filling out the form and submitting, it WILL then
work without errors. [This one made me pound my head against the wall for quite some time, even AFTER
reading that long-winded NOTE on page 150.]

Anonymous   
Printed Page 876
Step 3.

"select the file called update.php" is wrong and should indicate the file edit.php instead (because there
is NO update.php file in the admin folder).

Anonymous   
Printed Page 877
Very first words on the page

"Creating the update page" should read "Creating the edit page".

Anonymous   
Printed Page 877
3rd line on the page

"Record Update Form" should read "Record Edit Form".

Anonymous   
Printed Page 884
Step 11.

Remove the comma after the word click. It is not needed.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 885
Step 19.

The beginning terminology of this step, "In the Property Inspector"... is directing you to the wrong
place. It should say something like... "At the bottom of the Delete Record window there is a place that
says "After deleting, go to:" and click that Browse... button.

Also in the same step it refers to "(cosmo_store)," but should say (cosmo_shop),...

Anonymous   
Printed Page 919
Step 11.

"Click the Store button" should read "Click the Cosmo Shop button".

Anonymous