Adobe Test&Target, its flagship online testing and optimization solution, was recently recognized as a Leader in “The Forrester Wave(TM): Online Testing, Q3 2010″ report. The independent report evaluated eight online testing vendors across 82 comprehensive criteria such as management, reporting and usability of vendors’ current offerings, support for a variety of testing techniques, clear product strategy and client satisfaction rankings.
“Online testing provides a mechanism for applying the principles of quantitative analysis to improve the Web site experience and drive metrics that affect the bottom line,” wrote the recently published report. “Adobe Test&Target is a component of Adobe’s Online Marketing Suite, and the company’s historical strength in Web measurement and analytics shines through to its perspective on online testing. Test&Target exhibits strength in almost every dimension evaluated.”
Adobe’s position as a Leader in the online testing evaluation was also attributed to its “consistent strength across the full range of capabilities” and “support for integration with the Web marketing ecosystem.” Additionally, Adobe Test&Target was found to excel in “overall application usability, customer satisfaction, and content support.”
Adobe received high scores across criteria such as campaign management, testing, integration, service and support, product strategy and corporate strategy. In addition, Adobe received the highest score in quality of customer references, earning the only 5-out-of-5 rating in that category.
“We think that Forrester Research’s report is timely and shows that marketers are indeed getting more sophisticated,” said Aseem Chandra, vice president, product marketing, Omniture Business Unit, Adobe. “Many marketers are now incorporating online analytics with testing strategies to ensure the right content is getting in front of the right audience at the right time, giving them a distinct competitive advantage. We will continue to expand Test&Target and the entire Adobe Online Marketing Suite to help customers transform their businesses to better meet visitor needs, improve marketing content performance and generate real business value.”
Flexi CSS Layouts is an easy to use Dreamweaver extension that helps you create table-less HTML layouts without coding in less than 5 minutes. With the “Insert page section layout” functionality, you can create more detailed and complex CSS layouts for content sections that can be inserted in the full page layouts: article lists, product stores, image galleries and many more. In this tutorial you can learn how to create the layout for an Image gallery.
Requirements for this tutorial:
Installing the Flexi CSS Layouts Dreamweaver extension
Before you open the Flexi CSS Layouts, you need to download and install this Dreamweaver extension. To download the extension, go to the product page and download a free trial, or if you have bought the product you can find the download link in your account on Extend Studio site.
After you have download the Flexi CSS Layouts extension kit, you need to install the Dreamweaver extension. Open the archive and double click the .mxp file and the Adobe Extension Manager should open and install it automatically. Or you can extract the archive, open the Adobe Extension Manager and select install. Then search the folder where you extracted the .mxp file and click open.
After you did these steps, open Dreamweaver and go to the Insert Panel (press CTRL + F2) to find the Flexi CSS Layouts tab.
Here is how to do the next steps.
In this tutorial we will go through the steps of creating a CSS website starting from a layout received from the designer. We will explain how to understand the page structure and how to use the Flexi CSS Layouts to create the CSS layout without coding.
Flexi CSS Layouts is an easy to use Dreamweaver extension that helps you create table-less HTML layouts without coding in less than 5 minutes. You can simply build the page structure directly from the interface and the extension will automatically create the divs and CSS for your layout; you can further customize the layout with your own CSS rules directly in the easy to use interface.
Quick Steps
- Installing the Flexi CSS Layouts Dreamweaver Extension
- Understanding the layout structure
- Using the Flexi CSS Layouts Dreamweaver extension
- Creating the main Layout structure
- Creating complex pieces of layout
Read the tutorial here.
In this tutorial we will use the Flexi CSS Layouts Dreamweaver extension to create a simple 3 columns CSS layout with a fixed width. The layout will have a header and footer and the content part will be split in 3 columns. Using the Flexi CSS Layouts extension, the layout will look the same in all major browsers.
Requirements for this tutorial:
Flexi CSS Layouts is an easy to use Dreamweaver extension that helps you create table-less HTML layouts without coding, in less than 5 minutes. You can simply create the page structure directly from the interface and the extension will automatically create the divs and CSS for your layout. Or choose from a wide range of embedded templates for your layout, then customize the layout with your own CSS rules.
Quick Steps
- Installing the Flexi CSS Layouts Dreamweaver extension
- Setting the layout main properties
- Adding the header, footer and content rows
- Adding 3 columns in the content area
- Uploading the page on the production server
- Suggested usage of the layout
Read the tutorial here.
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