What looks like temp files in Dreamweaver 8 file panel on OS X.4
If you are using OS X.4, have Spotlight on, and see odd number files in your web directories while using Dreamweaver 8 you need to hide your local web files from Spotlight. Simply:
- Open Spotlight from System Preferences
- Go to Privacy tab
- Add the folder of your local site to the list
Problem solved. Now all you need to do is clean up the odd files all over the place. What is going on with Spotlight that causes this? I don’t know but I was told to hide Spotlight and the problem goes away. At a guess, Spotlight is caching a copy of a opened file and that somehow conflicts with DW 8’s way of caching files.
Updated look, again
I am a little late for the November 1st deadline of the Fall CSS reboot but better late than never. Behold the new skin for the web dev blog. I am pretty happy with this design that evolved from the CLF and was refined by Vincent Marta and myself. Big thanks to Vincent for the work he has done so far this term. There are still a few little things to do but more on that later.
CSS and XHTML observations with the CLF
I have been working on the not-so-secret revamp of CPA pages and general news pages over the past couple of weeks. Due to the content layout this has meant some creative CSS and diving into fonts.
I have also been playing around with some XHTML/CSS and DWT for a DevNet article. The test page is pretty cool (to me) as I have achieved the same CLF-dwt-like behavior but with floats instead of absolutely positioned elements. How I managed that will have to wait until the article is published (or you can look at the source code).
As I have been working on both things I have been asking myself: Why do we need so many directories in web sites? The goal with the CPA site is to flatten our pages, get you to the content faster… in a couple weeks you can judge how I did. But every couple of hours I seem to be asking myself – “what was I thinking when I stuck [insert directory name or file here] there.”
So back to the CSS, how many annoying things have you run into with CLF CSS? I have two things that are really driving me nuts (I created the stuff too):
- UW3col.css is defining font-size: 80% in the #primarycontent, why? It should be in UWblank.css.
- too many #secondnavarea and #secondnav control in UWblank.css – it should be in UW3col.css.
…and I have a couple XHTML complaints:
- Navigation should be brought into #primarycontarea and floated
- #pagecontainer should have always been there
If I changed those, the CSS would be much better. The XHTML changes would be huge actually… I can’t believe how smooth that template works that I made for DevNet. It has been a year since I built the template, I am much better with CSS now. What do you find annoying with the CSS and XHTML of the CLF?
