Dreamweaver Tutorial

You can also set up clocking, design notes and much more. Now we know how to set up a site.

Let’s take a look at some of the general preferences inside a dream weaver. To access we go the edit menu and then down to preferences. Dream weaver has preferences settings that control the general appearance and behavior of the dream weaver for user interface, as well as options relate to specific features, such as code covering, code format, CSS style, different editors; that you will be using along with dream weaver such as fireworks and also what browsers you like to preview your pages in and much more.

Next let took at the result panel, the result panel is found below the properties inspector if its not displaying by default you can come to window and go to results hit F7. The search tab inside the results panel gives you the abilities to seraph your tabs and attributes as well as specific text within tags. The validation tabs, you can see the check for code and syntax errors. The browser compatibility check tab allows you to test HTML in your documents. To ensure that all your tabs needs to be used are supported by your target browsers.

Next, the link checker allows you to check for broken, external, and orphan links. We also have the reside reports tab. inside the report tabs you can really improve workflow and test HTML attributes in your site. Workflow reports include checked out by, designed notes, and recently modified, accessibility and more. The reference panel provides you with a quick reference to all from mark up languages, programming languages and CSS styles. In order to use the reference panel, you will need to be in code view and any tag you select on the screen can right click on it, go to reference and it will display the description of that tag and also particular attributes that can be used inside that tag. Next lets talk about codes inhibits.

Codes inhibits can be found in the file panel. Codes inhibits are used to store contents for quick reuse. You can create a new snippet, edit, insert or delete snippets at you leisure. To use a snippet it simply double clicks on the snippet and it inserts or pushes that code inside that snippet to your page.

Finally, lets a look at the code tool bar the coding tool bar contains buttons that you can perform many standard coding operations such as code collapsing and expanding highlighting invalid code as well as applying moving comments, indenting code and inserting recently used snip its. In order to use the code tool bar you will need to be in code view.

In case you didn’t see the video in part 1 of this series… here it is again.

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