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Setting Preferences

At the beginning of the workshop, some basic default settings were made in "Opening Dreamweaver and Setting Defaults." Now it's time to tackle more of the defaults by going back to the "Preferences..." settings.

  1. go to the "Edit" ("Dreamweaver" on Mac) menu
  2. choose "Preferences..."

I'm not going to go through each category one by one. Instead I'll point out some of the settings I think are particularly useful. Feel free to disagree with me and ignore my suggestions.

Suggested Dreamweaver Preferences Settings
Category Settings
General
  1. check all except:
    1. Reopen documents on startup
    2. Allow multiple consecutive spaces
Code Format
  1. Line break type: LF (Unix)
  2. Default tag case: <lowercase>
  3. Default attribute case: lowercase="value"
  4. Override case of: Check the boxes of both "Tags" and "Attributes"
Code Rewriting
  1. check all boxes
CSS Styles
  1. "Use shorthand for:"
    1. check all boxes
Invisible Elements
  1. check all boxes
Panels
  1. I uncheck every single one otherwise they stay on top of the main edit window. This may be useful for some panels, but I'd rather add this as needed. I can still click on a panel to bring it forward.
Preview in Browser
  1. Add your primary and secondary browsers as well as any others you want to check your web pages in.
Site
  1. Put Options: check "Save Files Before Putting"
Status Bar
  1. Connection Speed: 56 Kilobits per second

Making Your First Web Page with Dreamweaver Workshop Navigation

  1. Making Your First Web Page with Dreamweaver Workshop
  2. Opening Dreamweaver and Setting Defaults
  3. Adding and Changing Your Content
  4. Absolute and Relative Links
  5. Naming Files for the Web
  6. Viewing Your Web Page in a Browser
  7. Creating a Site
  8. Letting the World See Your Page
  9. Setting Preferences
  10. Basic Web Page Exercise
  11. Web Design References
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