
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
CMX Weekly Newsletter News Fun and Freebies Recent CMX Content Tips, Tricks and Dirty Cheats Check the News! It's Official... And Looks Odd Adobe's logo is currently resting awkwardly at the top of Macromedia's website. Adobe and Macromedia's websites are sharing the same banner that dramatically explains how "Adobe and Macromedia are One", before transforming quickly into the Adobe logo. The acquisition is final, and Adobe is wasting no time in connecting their brand to the "brand formerly known as Macromedia." While a lot of good could come out of the acquisition, many folks are only cautiously optimistic. It's definitely the end of an era, but at Community MX we're looking forward to a lot of exciting opportunities for us and our subscribers. Stephanie Sullivan has more to say on this topic on our blog. Give The Gift of Knowledge Community MX is once again offering Holiday Gift Certificates. Surprise your resident webhead with a gift certificate subscription to Community MX. You can now easily provide all of the benefits of a full CMX subscription for 3 months, 6 months or a full year. And a CMX Subscription is a gift that keeps on giving, with brand new content every single business day. More info... Maybe We Should Just Go To The Movies On January 5th On January 5th, 2006, the next big attack of the Sober Worm is supposed to hit. At that time, Sober will email itself it out from any Sober-infected computer to specific servers which will presumably then send itself to millions more people, in an attempt to infect even more computers. While this variation of the Sober Worm is not specifically malicious - it does not do anything to your computer besides use it to send email - it has been known to wreak some havoc on mail servers. A security firm pointed out that the January 5th date is the 87th anniversary of the founding of a precursor to the Nazi Party. Just one more reason to hate this particular Worm. Read more about it at TechWeb.com. Sony to Change Name to "Hacker Haven" We mentioned a few weeks ago that CDs released by Sony Music in the United States and Canada installed spyware onto user's computers, possibly allowing hackers to gather private information about the user. An internet rights group recently found out that was only a small part of the story. Apparently, the "infected" CDs could allow Windows machines to be completely compromised by hackers, allowing them full control over your computer. Sony has stopped the practice of putting the offending software on their CDs, but that hasn't stopped the lawsuits from coming in. TimesOnline.co.uk has more on this story, and a link to eff.org, which will help you identify the "bad" CDs. Are You Saying That FreakyDoo McZeekyFatFlop is Not a Real Person? According to a study from the Government Accountability Office, more than five percent of the registered domain names in the United States are registered using obviously faked contact information. Next they'll try to tell us that those people who use fake contact information when registering their domains do so to avoid spam and unnecessary phone calls. Oh... actually that's exactly what this Yahoo.com article is saying.
Satisfied Customers Speak Out! "Hi Rob [Williams], just thought I'd send you a personal note of thanks for this tutorial. You've answered my plea for help exactly! It's so comforting to know that I have a personal team of experts to teach, help and guide me through my (very steep) learning curve." - John E., CMX Subscriber, commenting on Robert Williams' article, Confirmation Emails in PHP Whether you're just starting out or need advanced support, Community MX will give you answers and ideas to work through your tough issues. Don't miss out. Learn more about CMX or sign up for a free trial today!
Great Quotes: "There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features." — James Coates More Pesky Bots for AIM Users The newest threat to AOL Instant Messenger users is being called "IM.Myspace04.AIM." It spreads itself by sending itself as an instant message to everyone on your Buddy list. If they click on the attachment in the message, they end up with the worm as well. The interesting thing about this AIM worm is that if your buddy replies, the worm itself will reply too, by saying "lol no its not a virus" or "lol thats cool." Because it replies to your buddy, there's a greater likelihood that your buddy will believe it's you sending the attachment and click on it. PCWorld.com tells the full story. Once Again: Do Not Trust Everything You Read On The Internet Wikipedia.org takes its encyclopedic information not from books or time-tested sources, but regular old folks like you and I. On any given day of course, you or I might feel a little cheeky and not tell the entire truth, or just plain fib. That's what happened when one anonymous editor decided to edit the biography of John Seigenthaler Sr. Seigenthaler was, among other things, an adminstrative assistant to Robert Kennedy. In the edited version of Seigenthaler's Wikipedia entry, it was strongly suggested that he had something to do with both John and Robert Kenney's deaths. The information has since been changed on the Wikipedia website, Seigenthaler is still non-plussed. Read more about it at Wikipedia.org. Hi, My Name Is [Insert Name Here], And I'm An Onlineaholic Do you suffer from internet addiction? As odd as that sounds, it seems that there are way too many people out there who can't seem to break away from the internet. Small wonder, what with online chat and compelling websites like Community MX, people just have so much to do on the internet that takes them away from "real life." While some psychologists argue that addiction to the internet is not as harmful as addiction to drugs, there are people who have made the news because they died due to neglecting themselves in favor of staying online. News.com has an interesting article on this relatively new disorder that people are afraid to label as such. If CBS Falls In Line, It Will Be Just Like The Old Days NBC has followed ABC into delivering their television shows over Apple's iTunes. You'll now be able to watch shows like Late Night with Conan O'Brian, The Tonight Show and even Dragnet using iTunes, at $1.99 a pop. NBC is getting a little sweeter deal than did ABC though. They'll be getting their own branded pages and opportunities to sell more of their own product over the iTunes network. Check out the full story at MediaPost.com. Microsoft CEO May Have To Part With .000000000000000000000001 Percent of His Cash Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, says that he doesn't get a free XBox from Microsoft, despite the position he holds with the company. We almost shed a tear when Ballmer stated "Thanks to the wonders of Sarbanes-Oxley, management does not get a free Xbox 360." Anyone wanting to start a collection for Ballmers children are urged to get over it - and quick. Read the rest of this woeful story at WashingtonPost.com.
FOTO 1.0 Extension for Fireworks MX - 8 Foto 1.0 (a Fireworks MX extension) is a collection of 5 non-destructive photo retouching effects for Fireworks MX. FOTO Includes: 1. Monochrome 2. Pencil Sketch 3. Color Glow Pro 4. Soft Glamour Pro Check out the Extension by Steven Grosvenor
Fun and Freebies Hypnotic, Compelling And Useless We're not even going to describe this one. It does nothing, yet does so much. Oh - and you can show this one to the kids. They might dig it too. Brought to you by ytmnd.com. This Guy Has Some Serious Baggage If you want to sell something on eBay, it helps to get people's attention. Brian Sacks was simply selling a pair of leather pants that he never ended up wearing. He not only ended up selling the pants for a little over one hundred dollars, but he also ended up parlaying the story behind his pants into about sixteen minutes of fame. You can still see the eBay listing, and read more about the history of Brian's pants at Banterist.com. Give The Gift Of An iWipe We thought the idea of taking an old Apple SE30 and making a "Macquarium" out of it was brilliant, but that was so... 90s. These days the hip thing to do is to create your iWipe. Yep, hollow out that old computer and make it work for you in the bathroom. TechRepublic.com has pictures of its construction, with running commentary by its creator.
Using the Macromedia Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit The Flash/JavaScript Integration Kit was developed by Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers at Macromedia. It was developed to make the communication between Flash and JavaScript easier to implement. This isn't a new technology, but it's a straightforward way to implement this type of communication between these different pieces of your application. This article discusses the benefits of the Integration Kit and gives a simple demonstration of how it can be used. This free article by CMX Partner Danny Patterson can be found here.
Weekly Content Listing Preparing For IE7 - Part Three - Multiple IE Browsers on One Computer [FREE] John Gallant, Holly Bergevin As the introduction of IE7 looms on the horizon, bringing yet another IE/Win version to the current list of browsers that web pages must be checked in, it would be great to have the ability to easily test on all these browsers. We've discovered that we can target different IE/Win browsers using Conditional Comments (CC), but up until recently testing in multiple versions of IE required several computers, or some special software instead. This is no longer the case. It's now possible to have IE3, IE4, IE5, IE5.5, and IE6 all working at the same time on one Windows computer! In this tutorial we'll describe how to install and label several versions IE/Win on a single computer. We'll also make a registry adjustment that will allow CCs to work properly on these newly installed browsers. Onward! Ubuntu & You, Part 4: Breezy Is Better Thomas Pletcher Ubuntu is both the most popular Linux distribution, and the most hyped. How much of the hype is true? Should you try Ubuntu, and what can you expect if you do? (Hint: expect easier software management than you've ever experienced.) Flash Video Cue Points, Part 1: Overview of Cue Points [FREE] Robert Reinhardt Flash Professional 8 makes the process of adding cue points to your video content easier than ever before. In this introductory article for a new Flash Video series at Community MX, you learn the in's and out's of cue points for Flash Video. Working with TopStyle - Part 5 Adrian Senior In Part 5 of this series we will look at the File List Panel in TopStyle. The File List Panel has the ability to load files of varying types into the panel view allowing us easy access and drag-and-drop functionality within our style sheet. The Working with TopStyle Series Working with TopStyle - Part 1 Working with TopStyle - Part 2 Working with TopStyle - Part 3 Working with TopStyle - Part 4 Working with TopStyle - Part 5 ColdFusion Tag Clouds Joel Martinez Wikipedia says about Tag Clouds: A tag cloud (more traditionally known as a weighted list in the field of visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag. The first tag cloud appeared on Flickr, the photo sharing site. That implementation was based on Jim Flanagan's Search Referral Zeitgeist, a visualization of web site referrers. Tag clouds have also been popularised by Technorati, among others. Jeffrey Zeldman has some thoughts on the subject. Although he's not exactly the biggest proponent of the technique, my purpose here is to simply show you how to create your own. After all, if your client wants a tag cloud, who are you to deny them of it? Sample code is provided using ColdFusion. Preventing Form Flooding and Double Submits Gordon Mackay When your sites allow users to input data via web forms it involves some risk on your part. One of those risks is flooding. Flooding occurs when a user repeatedly inserts data in quick succession; either deliberately or by mistake. When flooding occurs by mistake it's usually because the user has either refreshed a page that still has HTTP request POST data set, or they have accidently pressed the form's submit button multiple times, the "double submit problem". Recently many blogs have been plagued by a form of advertising that takes advantage of the ease in which a site's user can post visible content on a page. It's called "Comment Spam", and although it's almost impossible to prevent it can be limited to an extent by taking some simple measures to limit the rate in which people can send data via your forms. In this article we will explore two methods that will ensure that you will never suffer the consequences of the double submit problem, and hopefully limit the impact of malicious user input. Confirmation Emails Rob Williams Many sites and services require that you confirm your email address when creating accounts or subscribing to services for the first time. Although there are a fair number of ways that you can attempt to validate a supplied email address, the only real way to be sure of its validity is to use a confirmation email. In this article we'll take a look at how you can create such a confirmation system using PHP and MySQL. The Meaning of ~ (tilde) Heidi Bautista The inventors of ASP.NET took a different approach to solving the problems inherent in using absolute and relative URLs. They introduced the concept of tilde. The simplest, briefest definition of tilde is that it is the root of the application. The root of a website is, by definition an application root, but not all application roots are site roots. Huh? Yeah, the explanation gets a little hairy, but once the concept sinks in, I think you'll agree you'll begin to wonder how you ever lived without tilde. Creating an Alpha Video in Adobe After Effects Tom Green After Effects 6.5 is the tool of choice for creating Alpha Channel video among the pros. Here's how. The Many Uses of the Malleable em [FREE] Zoe Gillenwater Most people first encounter the em unit as a way to size text using CSS. This article will show you how to do just that. But, there's more to the em unit than just font sizing. It can be used as a length unit on any property that takes a length. You'll learn how to use the em unit as length for margin and padding to create pages that scale more gracefully.
Attribute Selectors A demonstration of an addition to the CSS specification that will provide front-end developers with great power over the presentation of their documents. Check out the Article by CMX Partner Gordon Mackay
Tips, Tricks and Dirty Cheats! This week's Tip, Trick or Dirty Cheat is courtesy of Danilo Celic , CMX Partner Get Out Of Class You may notice that if you working within a styled element, such as a paragraph with a background color on it, such as the tip sections within our articles, that when you're done with the paragraph and you hit enter, Dreamweaver helpfully creates a new paragraph styled with the same class as the paragraph you were just in. This may not be what you want - I know that it isn't what I'd prefer most of the time. Simply hitting CTRL+ Enter (CMD+Return on Mac), will "break you out" of the classy paragraphs. Would you like your tip published? Submit it to tips@communitymx.com. That's it for this week. Stay tuned for the next CMX newsletter!

CMX Weekly Newsletter

News
Fun and Freebies
Recent CMX Content
Tips, Tricks and Dirty Cheats

Check the News!

It's Official... And Looks Odd

Adobe's logo is currently resting awkwardly at the top of Macromedia's website. Adobe and Macromedia's websites are sharing the same banner that dramatically explains how "Adobe and Macromedia are One", before transforming quickly into the Adobe logo. The acquisition is final, and Adobe is wasting no time in connecting their brand to the "brand formerly known as Macromedia." While a lot of good could come out of the acquisition, many folks are only cautiously optimistic. It's definitely the end of an era, but at Community MX we're looking forward to a lot of exciting opportunities for us and our subscribers. Stephanie Sullivan has more to say on this topic on our blog.

Give The Gift of Knowledge

Community MX is once again offering Holiday Gift Certificates. Surprise your resident webhead with a gift certificate subscription to Community MX. You can now easily provide all of the benefits of a full CMX subscription for 3 months, 6 months or a full year. And a CMX Subscription is a gift that keeps on giving, with brand new content every single business day. More info...

Maybe We Should Just Go To The Movies On January 5th

On January 5th, 2006, the next big attack of the Sober Worm is supposed to hit. At that time, Sober will email itself it out from any Sober-infected computer to specific servers which will presumably then send itself to millions more people, in an attempt to infect even more computers. While this variation of the Sober Worm is not specifically malicious - it does not do anything to your computer besides use it to send email - it has been known to wreak some havoc on mail servers. A security firm pointed out that the January 5th date is the 87th anniversary of the founding of a precursor to the Nazi Party. Just one more reason to hate this particular Worm. Read more about it at TechWeb.com.

Sony to Change Name to "Hacker Haven"

We mentioned a few weeks ago that CDs released by Sony Music in the United States and Canada installed spyware onto user's computers, possibly allowing hackers to gather private information about the user. An internet rights group recently found out that was only a small part of the story. Apparently, the "infected" CDs could allow Windows machines to be completely compromised by hackers, allowing them full control over your computer. Sony has stopped the practice of putting the offending software on their CDs, but that hasn't stopped the lawsuits from coming in. TimesOnline.co.uk has more on this story, and a link to eff.org, which will help you identify the "bad" CDs.

Are You Saying That FreakyDoo McZeekyFatFlop is Not a Real Person?

According to a study from the Government Accountability Office, more than five percent of the registered domain names in the United States are registered using obviously faked contact information. Next they'll try to tell us that those people who use fake contact information when registering their domains do so to avoid spam and unnecessary phone calls. Oh... actually that's exactly what this Yahoo.com article is saying.

Satisfied Customers Speak Out!

"Hi Rob [Williams], just thought I'd send you a personal note of thanks for this tutorial. You've answered my plea for help exactly! It's so comforting to know that I have a personal team of experts to teach, help and guide me through my (very steep) learning curve."

- John E., CMX Subscriber, commenting on Robert Williams' article, Confirmation Emails in PHP

Whether you're just starting out or need advanced support, Community MX will give you answers and ideas to work through your tough issues. Don't miss out. Learn more about CMX or sign up for a free trial today!

Great Quotes:

"There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features." — James Coates

More Pesky Bots for AIM Users

The newest threat to AOL Instant Messenger users is being called "IM.Myspace04.AIM." It spreads itself by sending itself as an instant message to everyone on your Buddy list. If they click on the attachment in the message, they end up with the worm as well. The interesting thing about this AIM worm is that if your buddy replies, the worm itself will reply too, by saying "lol no its not a virus" or "lol thats cool." Because it replies to your buddy, there's a greater likelihood that your buddy will believe it's you sending the attachment and click on it. PCWorld.com tells the full story.

Once Again: Do Not Trust Everything You Read On The Internet

Wikipedia.org takes its encyclopedic information not from books or time-tested sources, but regular old folks like you and I. On any given day of course, you or I might feel a little cheeky and not tell the entire truth, or just plain fib. That's what happened when one anonymous editor decided to edit the biography of John Seigenthaler Sr. Seigenthaler was, among other things, an adminstrative assistant to Robert Kennedy. In the edited version of Seigenthaler's Wikipedia entry, it was strongly suggested that he had something to do with both John and Robert Kenney's deaths. The information has since been changed on the Wikipedia website, Seigenthaler is still non-plussed. Read more about it at Wikipedia.org.

Hi, My Name Is [Insert Name Here], And I'm An Onlineaholic

Do you suffer from internet addiction? As odd as that sounds, it seems that there are way too many people out there who can't seem to break away from the internet. Small wonder, what with online chat and compelling websites like Community MX, people just have so much to do on the internet that takes them away from "real life." While some psychologists argue that addiction to the internet is not as harmful as addiction to drugs, there are people who have made the news because they died due to neglecting themselves in favor of staying online. News.com has an interesting article on this relatively new disorder that people are afraid to label as such.

If CBS Falls In Line, It Will Be Just Like The Old Days

NBC has followed ABC into delivering their television shows over Apple's iTunes. You'll now be able to watch shows like Late Night with Conan O'Brian, The Tonight Show and even Dragnet using iTunes, at $1.99 a pop. NBC is getting a little sweeter deal than did ABC though. They'll be getting their own branded pages and opportunities to sell more of their own product over the iTunes network. Check out the full story at MediaPost.com.

Microsoft CEO May Have To Part With .000000000000000000000001 Percent of His Cash

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, says that he doesn't get a free XBox from Microsoft, despite the position he holds with the company. We almost shed a tear when Ballmer stated "Thanks to the wonders of Sarbanes-Oxley, management does not get a free Xbox 360." Anyone wanting to start a collection for Ballmers children are urged to get over it - and quick. Read the rest of this woeful story at WashingtonPost.com.

FOTO 1.0 Extension for Fireworks MX - 8

Foto 1.0 (a Fireworks MX extension) is a collection of 5 non-destructive photo retouching effects for Fireworks MX. FOTO Includes:

1. Monochrome

2. Pencil Sketch

3. Color Glow Pro

4. Soft Glamour Pro

Check out the Extension by Steven Grosvenor

Fun and Freebies

Hypnotic, Compelling And Useless

We're not even going to describe this one. It does nothing, yet does so much. Oh - and you can show this one to the kids. They might dig it too. Brought to you by ytmnd.com.

This Guy Has Some Serious Baggage

If you want to sell something on eBay, it helps to get people's attention. Brian Sacks was simply selling a pair of leather pants that he never ended up wearing. He not only ended up selling the pants for a little over one hundred dollars, but he also ended up parlaying the story behind his pants into about sixteen minutes of fame. You can still see the eBay listing, and read more about the history of Brian's pants at Banterist.com.

Give The Gift Of An iWipe

We thought the idea of taking an old Apple SE30 and making a "Macquarium" out of it was brilliant, but that was so... 90s. These days the hip thing to do is to create your iWipe. Yep, hollow out that old computer and make it work for you in the bathroom. TechRepublic.com has pictures of its construction, with running commentary by its creator.

Using the Macromedia Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit

The Flash/JavaScript Integration Kit was developed by Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers at Macromedia. It was developed to make the communication between Flash and JavaScript easier to implement. This isn't a new technology, but it's a straightforward way to implement this type of communication between these different pieces of your application. This article discusses the benefits of the Integration Kit and gives a simple demonstration of how it can be used.

This free article by CMX Partner Danny Patterson can be found here.

Weekly Content Listing

Preparing For IE7 - Part Three - Multiple IE Browsers on One Computer [FREE]

John Gallant, Holly Bergevin

As the introduction of IE7 looms on the horizon, bringing yet another IE/Win version to the current list of browsers that web pages must be checked in, it would be great to have the ability to easily test on all these browsers. We've discovered that we can target different IE/Win browsers using Conditional Comments (CC), but up until recently testing in multiple versions of IE required several computers, or some special software instead.

This is no longer the case. It's now possible to have IE3, IE4, IE5, IE5.5, and IE6 all working at the same time on one Windows computer! In this tutorial we'll describe how to install and label several versions IE/Win on a single computer. We'll also make a registry adjustment that will allow CCs to work properly on these newly installed browsers. Onward!

Ubuntu & You, Part 4: Breezy Is Better

Thomas Pletcher

Ubuntu is both the most popular Linux distribution, and the most hyped. How much of the hype is true? Should you try Ubuntu, and what can you expect if you do? (Hint: expect easier software management than you've ever experienced.)

Flash Video Cue Points, Part 1: Overview of Cue Points [FREE]

Robert Reinhardt

Flash Professional 8 makes the process of adding cue points to your video content easier than ever before. In this introductory article for a new Flash Video series at Community MX, you learn the in's and out's of cue points for Flash Video.

Working with TopStyle - Part 5

Adrian Senior

In Part 5 of this series we will look at the File List Panel in TopStyle. The File List Panel has the ability to load files of varying types into the panel view allowing us easy access and drag-and-drop functionality within our style sheet.

The Working with TopStyle Series
Working with TopStyle - Part 1
Working with TopStyle - Part 2
Working with TopStyle - Part 3
Working with TopStyle - Part 4
Working with TopStyle - Part 5

ColdFusion Tag Clouds

Joel Martinez

Wikipedia says about Tag Clouds:

A tag cloud (more traditionally known as a weighted list in the field of visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.

The first tag cloud appeared on Flickr, the photo sharing site. That implementation was based on Jim Flanagan's Search Referral Zeitgeist, a visualization of web site referrers. Tag clouds have also been popularised by Technorati, among others.

Jeffrey Zeldman has some thoughts on the subject. Although he's not exactly the biggest proponent of the technique, my purpose here is to simply show you how to create your own. After all, if your client wants a tag cloud, who are you to deny them of it?

Sample code is provided using ColdFusion.

Preventing Form Flooding and Double Submits

Gordon Mackay

When your sites allow users to input data via web forms it involves some risk on your part. One of those risks is flooding.

Flooding occurs when a user repeatedly inserts data in quick succession; either deliberately or by mistake. When flooding occurs by mistake it's usually because the user has either refreshed a page that still has HTTP request POST data set, or they have accidently pressed the form's submit button multiple times, the "double submit problem".

Recently many blogs have been plagued by a form of advertising that takes advantage of the ease in which a site's user can post visible content on a page. It's called "Comment Spam", and although it's almost impossible to prevent it can be limited to an extent by taking some simple measures to limit the rate in which people can send data via your forms.

In this article we will explore two methods that will ensure that you will never suffer the consequences of the double submit problem, and hopefully limit the impact of malicious user input.

Confirmation Emails

Rob Williams

Many sites and services require that you confirm your email address when creating accounts or subscribing to services for the first time. Although there are a fair number of ways that you can attempt to validate a supplied email address, the only real way to be sure of its validity is to use a confirmation email. In this article we'll take a look at how you can create such a confirmation system using PHP and MySQL.

The Meaning of ~ (tilde)

Heidi Bautista

The inventors of ASP.NET took a different approach to solving the problems inherent in using absolute and relative URLs. They introduced the concept of tilde. The simplest, briefest definition of tilde is that it is the root of the application. The root of a website is, by definition an application root, but not all application roots are site roots. Huh? Yeah, the explanation gets a little hairy, but once the concept sinks in, I think you'll agree you'll begin to wonder how you ever lived without tilde.

Creating an Alpha Video in Adobe After Effects

Tom Green

After Effects 6.5 is the tool of choice for creating Alpha Channel video among the pros. Here's how.

The Many Uses of the Malleable em [FREE]

Zoe Gillenwater

Most people first encounter the em unit as a way to size text using CSS. This article will show you how to do just that. But, there's more to the em unit than just font sizing. It can be used as a length unit on any property that takes a length. You'll learn how to use the em unit as length for margin and padding to create pages that scale more gracefully.

Attribute Selectors

A demonstration of an addition to the CSS specification that will provide front-end developers with great power over the presentation of their documents.

Check out the Article by CMX Partner Gordon Mackay

Tips, Tricks and Dirty Cheats!

This week's Tip, Trick or Dirty Cheat is courtesy of Danilo Celic , CMX Partner

Get Out Of Class

You may notice that if you working within a styled element, such as a paragraph with a background color on it, such as the tip sections within our articles, that when you're done with the paragraph and you hit enter, Dreamweaver helpfully creates a new paragraph styled with the same class as the paragraph you were just in. This may not be what you want - I know that it isn't what I'd prefer most of the time. Simply hitting CTRL+ Enter (CMD+Return on Mac), will "break you out" of the classy paragraphs.

Would you like your tip published? Submit it to tips@communitymx.com.

That's it for this week. Stay tuned for the next CMX newsletter!