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I have noticed for quite a while on the over the internet that there are tutorials on how to alternate row colors in table, but not row fonts. This very easy to follow tutorial will show you how to do just that.

First, before we can look at the required coding, we need to create a recordset in Dreamweaver MX.

Next, create an HTML table with 2 rows and how ever many columns as you need.

First there was Lightbox, now there is Lightbox 2. Dont quite know how to say it but Lokesh has done a great job with this little javascript gem. Well whats is Lightbox? Put simply, Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. For those of you who have been visiting my portofolio, Lightbox was used to display the images. Since my images were taken from a database, it was relatively easy to setup. But the major drawback with Lightbox was that in order to view the next picture, you had to close the current image and select the next one from your list.

I have always been a bit skeptical of new technologies. Back in the days when I was at college, I only dabbled in HTML then for an assignment, I decided tocreate a shopping cart using ASP and Dreamweaver. To be honest, I had no clue of what I was doing. I could not get my head round dynamic websites or how to implement them. But practice really did make perfect once I understood how it all worked. managed to finish my assignment, got a good grade and was happy as Larry. But I just got tired of ASP as whole particularly with trying to sort out database connection error (IIS and all) and started using PHP. The whole process started again but now I can safely say I am pretty good with PHP. I do dabble in a few other things as well. Coldfusion and ASP.NET though I have to admit the latter really has me stumped. Easy step up from Visual Basic?? I think not.

Looking to create an easy 5 star rating system? Then you best head over to this website:

http://komodomedia.com

Very easy to setup and follow. To be honest, I had been looking for a similar solution for a quite a while as I was working on a media upload website and needed to implement a 5-Star rating system. I could have taken the long and created about 10 different gif files and used PHP to display the corresponding image according to the rating value of an item. Example: Rating 3.5 will show up 3_5_stars.gif and so on and so forth.

Ever since AJAX burst in the web design world, developers have been scrambling to determine the best framework to use when developing their sites. I won’t be the only one to say that there are a huge number of frameworks available. Being a web designer using Dreamweaver, a lot has been cut down on development time and not having such a technology at hand was a bit disappointing.