Murray Summers

Those of you who follow the Fireworks forum postings will probably recognize my name. I suppose I may have gotten a reputation as a crusader who opposes the use of the original Fireworks Pop-Up Menu as implemented in Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 and earlier. I'm here to tell you that you are absolutely right. There are more than a few reasons not to use those pop-up menus, in my opinion, and I have spent a fair amount of time posting to this effect. So why am I writing this article, then? Well, I have an agenda, as follows: I want to tell the Fireworks team that I appreciate the effort that they have devoted to making this new menu system. I want to tell you that I will no longer bore you with my usual posts about not using this menu system. I am very hopeful that the Dreamweaver development team will take these comments to heart and focus on the pop-up menu feature i... (more)

Advanced Templating

Dreamweaver hides many wonderful (and often overlooked) tools. While you may be a long-time user of Dreamweaver templates you might not know some of their more powerful features. This article explains how two of these "template secrets" interact, and how you might use them on your pages. I'll assume you have some experience with the basics of Dreamweaver templates, which were greatly improved in Dreamweaver MX (DMX), but remain nearly the same in MX 2004. Among the many features Macromedia added to Dreamweaver MX's template capability is a collection of new regions, one of which... (more)