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5 Free Dreamweaver Templates And Free Dreamweaver Templates Video Guide From Adobe

If you are looking for some free Dreamweaver templates, we've found some good ones that you can download from the Adobe site. Here's a little bit more info on their selection of free Dreamweaver templates from their article Dreamweaver templates: Customizable starter designs for beginners:

The following templates were designed and developed to give web designers a jump on new web layout techniques. In addition to design and layout, each design contains a dynamic element developed using CSS, HTML and JavaScript, commonly referred to as Ajax. Adobe has its own framework for developing Ajax-based sites, commonly known as Spry, and Adobe Dreamweaver supports a visual way to work with Spry and Spry widgets.

The download files also include source Photoshop files with slices, which can be edited with either Photoshop or Fireworks, and the design elements are already set up to work with the layout and Spry widgets. Preview and download the templates you want, and watch a short video to learn how you can customize these templates for your own needs. In this video, you learn how the templates are structured and how you can customize them for your own needs. I'll walk you through each template, and show you how to edit both the design and Spry widgets in Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Fireworks.

Free Dreamweaver Templates From Adobe

UPDATE — It seems that the free Dreamweaver templates are gone for now, so here is a link to Dreamweaver Template Resources at Adobe. We are working on finding new free templates and will post them shortly! Here are two good free Dreamweaver Template Sites (and look below for free video clips on working with Dreamweaver templates in Dreamweaver CS4)...

Dreamweaver Club - Free Open Source Templates
This is a collection of free website templates. Some of these templates might not work perfectly with the rendering engine in Dreamweaver Design View, so make sure you read the description of the template before you attempt to modify and use it.

Free Dreamweaver Templates and Fireworks Layouts
All the free Dreamweaver template downloads include the Dreamweaver template, Fireworks source file, css styles, fonts and a help guide that will give you step-by-step instructions on customizing the templates.

Working With Templates In Dreamweaver CS4 - 4 Free Video Clips From Dreamweaver CS4 Essential Training With James Williamson

Here are four sample clips from the lynda.com Dreamweaver CS4 training series, Dreamweaver CS4 Essential Training with James Williamson.

Dreamweaver CS4 - Planning For Templates
Templates in Dreamweaver CS4 help you create new pages quickly, keep your web site consistent and maintain your site. In this movie, you'll explore these benefits of templates and learn how to plan your site design to take the best advantage of templates.

Dreamweaver CS4 - Creating A New Template
Learn how to save Dreamweaver templates from HTML pages and insert editable regions into the template that will allow you to add new content when you create pages from the template.

Dreamweaver CS4 - Creating Editable Attributes
In the case where there are small changes in an element from page to page, instead of adding an editable region, you can add editable attributes to your Dreamweaver template. In this movie, learn how to add editable attributes to banner and navigation bar elements.

Dreamweaver CS4 - Creating New Pages From A Template
In this movie, learn how to create new pages based off of a finished template and edit existing pages to conform to a template in Dreamweaver CS4. Also learn how to update editable attributes and place content into editable regions.

Learn More About This Training
To get the most out of Dreamweaver CS4, it's important not only to master the application, but also to understand fundamental concepts of modern web design. James Williamson teaches just that in Dreamweaver CS4 Essential Training, covering everything from site structure to the value of standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. Learn more at the lynda.com site.

Dreamweaver CS5 - Best Deals From Adobe
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 software enables you to develop with PHP-based content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla!, or Drupal; design with powerful CSS inspection tools; and test your web pages across browsers with Adobe BrowserLab, a new Adobe CS Live online service. Dreamweaver CS5 makes it easy to design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications. Learn more about Dreamweaver CS5.

Also consider getting Dreamweaver CS5 as part of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium software — the comprehensive toolkit for creating a full range of digital experiences — now with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 and Flash Builder 4. Upgraders, here's your chance to ramp up to the integrated power of Creative Suite 5 from a previous version of Dreamweaver at a huge savings.

Find CS5 upgrade options and Creative Suite 5 deals at the Adobe Store. See CS5 pricing in UK currency at the Adobe UK Store. Visit the Adobe Special Offers page to find the latest deals. Save 80% on Adobe Student Editions. Try before you buy — download a free Dreamweaver CS5 trial.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium allows you to design and develop content for delivery virtually anywhere with integrated tools in the Adobe Flash Platform — Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash Professional CS5, and Flash Builder 4. Leverage dynamic application support and CSS enhancements in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Extend Dreamweaver capabilities through integration with Adobe BrowserLab — one of the new Adobe CS Live online services — a fast and accurate solution for cross-browser compatibility testing.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium combines Dreamweaver CS5, Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash Professional CS5, Flash Builder 4, Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, Acrobat 9 Pro, Fireworks CS5, Contribute CS5, Bridge CS5, and Device Central CS5. Download a free CS5 Design Premium 30 day trial.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorials & Resources
See our Dreamweaver CS5 Resource Center for free Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorials & Videos, and the free Dreamweaver CS5 30-day trial download.

On the Macromedia site there's a Free Dreamweaver Template Page that offers you a nice collection of excellent looking Dreamweaver templates for both MAC and PC. From the site:

"Templates provide new Dreamweaver users with an intuitive way to learn how to create Web pages and sites, whereas more experienced Dreamweaver users can use them as a jumping point for new projects or comps. You can apply templates when you create a document or apply them to an existing document. All the graphics for the templates were created using Macromedia Fireworks.

"The seamless integration between Dreamweaver and Fireworks gives new users everything they need to instantly create Web pages. The fully editable Fireworks files make it easy to quickly edit the graphics and pictures. Just customize the words in Dreamweaver, and you're ready to post the site.

"Templates feature e-commerce, education, and consumer themes and were built using both Dreamweaver and Fireworks. You can download a fully functional trial version of Fireworks to get started today. Macromedia has created these Dreamweaver templates exclusively for use by licensed Dreamweaver customers. All other use of these templates is prohibited."

You can click on a preview and see just what the web pages will look like before downloading the free templates. So have a look around and see if you find a nice template that suits the style you are looking for. Some titles include: Design House, Club, E-zine, Photographer, Band Fan Site, Kids, Massage Therapist, Professor, Vacation,
Wedding, and Yearbook.

Visit the Free Dreamweaver Template Page at the Macromedia site.

Site Grinder Web Design Tool - Exclusive $100 Off - Photoshop Plugin

Our partners at Media Lab have given us an exclusive offer — you can purchase Site Grinder for $299, saving you $100 off the regular price. Go to the Media Lab site to find out more about Site Grinder and this special offer.

There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.

Essentially, Photoshop is a no-holds-barred design studio, offering the artist a seemingly endless array of creative options. On the other hand, HTML, CSS, Java and the like follow strict rules of engagement, requiring the developer to take any number of esoteric concerns into consideration in order to ensure that designs are properly displayed on the web.

Turn Photoshop Into A Complete Web Design Tool
SiteGrinder seeks to bridge this gap between design and development. Basically, SiteGrinder turns Photoshop into an easy-to-use and fully functional web design tool. With SiteGrinder, designers will now have the freedom to totally let their creativity loose and then, without skipping a beat, transfer their designs to the web. Bringing esthetic concerns together with more practical considerations, SiteGrinder is an amazingly powerful tool that would make a fantastic addition to any web designer's bag of tricks. Mac OS X and Windows versions of the SiteGrinder unlockable demo are available now via download.

Layout Gala - Free CSS Templates For Web Design

Free CSS templates can be a dime a downloadable dozen these days, but few sites offer a selection as extensive and easy-to-use as Layout Gala.

Over 40 free templates are collected here, each created using identical HTML by Alessandro Fulciniti. He's covered just about every imaginable layout for a blog or website template – there are fixed, relative, centered, right-justified and left-justified options, and every combination thereof.

For those new and wishing to try their hand at web design, or for those seasoned and seeking to expedite their workflow, both would be well-advised to stop by here and take a look at these templates. Fulciniti has made what is often the hardest and most time-consuming part of website design easy and efficient, as you no longer have to struggle to get the bare bones of the layout working in all browsers and displaying the desired widths. This site is a must to be bookmarked, especially for those of you who are working with Dreamweaver.

Exclusive 15% Discount On All Topaz Plugins - Use Coupon Code PHOTOSHOPSUPPORT - Includes Bundles And Upgrades

Enter our exclusive discount coupon code PHOTOSHOPSUPPORT during the checkout process at Topaz Labs for an instant 15% discount on any Topaz product, including bundles and upgrades.

Topaz Labs Photoshop plug-ins are specifically designed to expand a photographer's creative toolbox by harnessing powerful image technology developments. Photographers everywhere are now taking advantage of the creative exposure effects, artistic simplification, unique edge manipulation, and top-of-the-line noise reduction offered in Topaz products. The Topaz Photoshop Plugins Bundle is a super powerful Photoshop plugins package that includes the following Topaz products:

Topaz Adjust
Deliver stunning and dynamic images with this uniquely powerful plug-in that features HDR-like abilities and enhances exposure, color and detail.
Topaz Detail
A three-level detail adjustment plug-in that specializes in micro-contrast enhancements and sharpening with no artifacts.
Topaz ReMask
The fastest and most effective masking and extraction program with one-click mask refining.
Topaz DeNoise
Highest-quality noise reduction plug-in that removes the most noise and color noise while preserving the most image detail.
Topaz Simplify
Provides creative simplification, art effects, and line accentuation for easy one-of-a-kind art.
Topaz Clean
Take control of the detail depth of your images with extensive smoothing, texture control and edge enhancement tools.
Topaz DeJPEG
Drastically improves the quality of web images and other compressed photos.

Learn more about the Topaz Photoshop Plugins Bundle. Download a free trial version.

Exclusive onOne Software 15% Instant Discount Coupon

Enter our exclusive discount coupon code - PSSPPT06 - during the checkout process at onOne Software for an instant 15% discount on any onOne product. This includes Genuine Fractals and their amazing Photoshop Plug-In Suite.

OnOne’s new Plug-In Suite solves six of the most frequent problems photographers will encounter in Photoshop. This suite has been granted American Photos Magazine’s Editor’s Choice award for Top Image Editing Software. The Plugin Suite includes:

Genuine Fractals Pro is renowned by both photographers and printers for its finesse at increasing images to more than ten times their original size while maintaining the sharpness and detail you started with. Think of this as the industry standard for image resizing.

Mask Pro is used to remove the tough stuff — such as hair, smoke and glass — while retaining the fine detail. You choose what colors to keep, then paint away what you don’t need.

PhotoTools Pro packs hundreds of high-calibre photographic effects into one user-friendly plug-in. It’s fast and easy to use. Gives your photos that pro quality look.

PhotoFrame Pro lets you enhance your pictures with hundreds of such design effects, or simply drop your image into a pre-fab layout in Photoshop, Lightroom or Aperture.

FocalPoint helps to control focus and minimize visual noise. Draw the eye to specific points in your images by using selective focus, depth-of-field and vignette effects.

PhotoTune lets you can compare images side-by-side and easily color correct and enhance them. PhotoTune optimizes the dynamic range, color and sharpness of your image without the need to know all the complicated controls in Photoshop like levels and curves.

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Nik Software 15% Instant Discount - Exclusive 15% Coupon

Enter our exclusive discount coupon code - NIKPSS - during the checkout process at Nik Software for an instant 15% discount on any Nik Software product. This exclusive discount coupon code can be applied to all the latest Nik Software Photoshop plugins, including Silver Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Viveza, Sharpener Pro, and Dfine.

Color Efex Pro
52 photographic filters with over 250 effects for professional quality images. Completely Original. Completely Indispensable.

Nik Software Color Efex Pro filters are the leading photographic filters for digital photography. The award-winning Color Efex Pro filters are widely used by many of today's professional photographers around the world to save time and get professional level results. Whether you choose the Complete Edition, Select Edition, or Standard Edition, you’ll get traditional and stylizing filters that offer virtually endless possibilities to enhance and transform images quickly and easily.

Patented U Point technology provides the ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections. Control color, light and tonality in your images and create unique enhancements with professional results. With 52 filters and over 250 effects found in Color Efex Pro, you can perform high quality retouching, color correction, and endless creative enhancements to your photographs. Download a free Trial version.

Viveza
The most powerful tool to selectively control color and light in photographic images without the need for complicated selections or layer masks.

Two of the most important factors in creating great photography are color and light. Mastering the art of selectively correcting or enhancing each of these is now possible for every photographer without the need for complicated masks or selections, or expert-level knowledge of Photoshop. Integrating award-winning U Point technology, Viveza is the most powerful and precise tool available to control light and color in photographic images.

U Point powered Color Control Points, placed directly on colors or objects in an image (such as sky, skin, grass, etc.), reveal easy-to-use controls that photographers can use to quickly adjust brightness, contrast or color in a fraction of the time needed by other tools. With Viveza you’ll spend more time shooting photographs and save hours of image editing. Download a free Trial version.

Silver Efex Pro
Complete power and control to create professional quality black and white images in one convenient tool.

Silver Efex Pro from Nik Software is the most powerful tool for creating professional quality black and white images from your photographs. For the first time, all the advanced power and control required for professional results have been brought together in one convenient tool.

Featuring Nik Software’s patented U Point technology to selectively control the tonality and contrast of the image, Silver Efex Pro includes advanced imaging algorithms to protect against unwanted artifacts, a comprehensive collection of emulated black and white film types, a variable toning selector for adding traditional toning techniques, over 20 one-click preset styles, and a state-of-the-art grain reproduction engine that help produce the highest quality black and white images possible from your color images while providing more freedom to experiment. Download a free Trial version to use Silver Efex Pro.

Enter our exclusive discount coupon code - NIKPSS - during the checkout process at Nik Software for an instant 15% discount. This exclusive discount coupon code can be applied to all the latest Nik Software Photoshop plugins, including Silver Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Viveza, Sharpener Pro, and Dfine.

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The 4 1/2 out of 5 star review of Fluid Mask at MacWorld begins by saying that this "Photoshop plug-in takes the pain out of extracting backgrounds," and goes on to recommend the latest version, stating that "Fluid Mask is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds. It offers a variety of useful features for tackling almost any difficult image, from wispy hair to complex foliage. Online video tutorials and live training sessions help ease the learning curve."

Our friends at Vertus, the makers of Fluid Mask Photoshop Plugin, have set up a special exclusive discount for PhotoshopSupport.com. Go to our Fluid Mask page for a special, exclusive discount link.

Fluid Mask is designed for photographers, image editors, graphic designers and all those who take digital image editing seriously. In a streamlined interface and workflow, Fluid Mask instantly shows key edges in the image and provides comprehensive easy to use tools that work with difficult-to-see edges and tricky areas like trees & lattices. Fluid Mask will also preserve all-important edge information for a professional quality cut out. Go to our Fluid Mask page for more info.

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Subscriptions to the lynda.com Online Training Library provide anytime access to tens of thousands of video tutorials covering Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, web design, digital imaging, 3D, digital video, animation, and many other topics. View free video clips.

For less than a dollar a day, members have the opportunity to stay current and keep skills sharp, learn innovative and productive techniques, and gain confidence and marketability - all at their own pace. Premium subscriptions include instructors’ exercise files so that members can follow along with the exact examples onscreen. Customers learn at their own pace and may stop, rewind, and replay segments as often as necessary. View some free video clips (high resolution).

Did You Know You Could Create An Entire Website In Photoshop?
SiteGrinder Photoshop Plugin - Create Websites Instantly

There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.

Essentially, Photoshop is a no-holds-barred design studio, offering the artist a seemingly endless array of creative options. On the other hand, HTML, CSS, Java and the like follow strict rules of engagement, requiring the developer to take any number of esoteric concerns into consideration in order to ensure that designs are properly displayed on the web.

Turn Photoshop Into A Complete Web Design Tool
SiteGrinder seeks to bridge this gap between design and development. Basically, SiteGrinder turns Photoshop into an easy-to-use and fully functional web design tool. With SiteGrinder, designers will now have the freedom to totally let their creativity loose and then, without skipping a beat, transfer their designs to the web. Bringing esthetic concerns together with more practical considerations, SiteGrinder is an amazingly powerful tool that would make a fantastic addition to any web designer's bag of tricks. Mac OS X and Windows versions of the SiteGrinder unlockable demo are available now via download.


PHOTO CREDIT: Full moon as seen from the International Space Station.