I am sid. Who r u?

I gathered some information and found out that Dreamweaver CS3 has several emerging issues.

1. Dreamweaver freezes at initializing files
·This is mostly encountered on Windows Vista Home Premium with Acer computers. No resolution yet.

2. Coldfusion 8 tags are somehow switched
·This issue only occurs on Macintosh machines.
The <cfdefault> and the <cfswitch> tags are being switched in Coldfusion 8 Templates

3. Login Feature in ADDT does not work with PHP 5.2.5 version
·The Login Feature in the ADDT package will fail to work if the version of PHP on the server is PHP 5.2.5.
·This requires further testing since this is not reproducible on PHP previous versions.
·The built-in Login feature in Dreamweaver shall work fine (the one from Data Objects), so this can be an alternative.
·The error code when you preview the page on the browser after submitting the form : Error code: -12263

I noticed this7 error in Windows Vista Home Premium. When you launch Dreamweaver CS3, it opens the splash screen, displays “initializing files” and thats it.

Necessary Troubleshooting steps we’re already done to attempt to launch/fix the program but to no avails.

The troubleshooting steps below didn’t work.

1. Recreate Registry file: HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>ADOBE>Dreamweaver (renamed to Dreamweaver old)

2. Open Dreamweaver on Selective Startup mode (http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401454)

3. Turn off ALL anti virus software; firewall and windows Firewall.

4. Troubleshooting Dreamweaver for Windows (http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_15481)

I’m not sure if this is a bug though. But to think that it’s only happening in Windows Vista Home Premium.

Here’s an update for the fix (Thanks to James from the comment section)

For Acer Users, you can try to uninstall the Acer E-Data Security Management from the Add/Remove programs and it should fix the problem. I will still confirm this solution if I’ll get more comments that will confirm that they were able to fix the problem by uninstalling the Acer E-Data Security Management.

Sid how bad do you want change

This post is in response to Nakul’s question on how to extend the header according to the browser’s width.

Here’s the challenge I gave myself: I want to make my Header stretch it’s background IF the browser width is more than the original width of the header (browser width > header’s width which is 950 px) and I want it to stay at 950 px if the browser’s width is less than 950 px.

So here’s how to do it.

1. Look for this code in your header.php file:

<div id=”top”>
<div id=”topi”></div>
<div id=”headr”>
<h1><a href=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/”>
<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>
</a></h1>
<div class=”description”>
<?php bloginfo(’description’); ?>
</div>
<div class=”rss2″>
<a href=”<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>” rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(’template_directory’); ?>/images/subscribe1.jpg” alt=”Subscribe” style=”border:0″/></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>

2. Add <div id=”pretop”> before the <div id=”top”>:

<div id=”pretop”>

<div id=”top”>
  <div id=”topi”></div>
  <div id=”headr”>
    <h1><a href=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/”>
      <?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>
      </a></h1>
    <div class=”description”>
      <?php bloginfo(’description’); ?>
    </div>
    <div class=”rss2″>
    <a href=”<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>” rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(’template_directory’); ?>/images/subscribe1.jpg” alt=”Subscribe” style=”border:0″/></a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

</div>

3. Open style.css and add this css style:

#pretop {
background-color: #161616; }

4. Upload the files to the remote server.

So there. we just added a fluid background on our header. The pretop div that we added doesn’t contain any fix width so the width is browser dependent. Since it contains top div inside it which has a fix width of 950px, it will stop from shrinking once the browser’s width is less than 950 px.

HTH!

sid
how bad do you want change