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Configuring Dreamweaver
If you're publishing on www.bu.edu, there a few
changes you should make to Dreamweaver's out-of-the-box settings.
You can change Dreamweaver's default settings by selecting Edit
> Preferences through the pull-down menus in either the Site
Management window or the document window of any page you are editing.
The Preferences dialog box is divided in two sections: a list of categories
on the left and all the options for each different category on the right.
Strongly recommended settings for the General category:
- Update Links: Dreamweaver should alert you when you have
made changes that will require links to be changed or updated.
Confirm that "Update links when moving files" is set
to "Prompt."
Strongly recommended settings for the Code Format category:
- Case for Tags and Case for Attributes: Setting the
default tag and attributes case
to lowercase produces code in lowercase. Do this to prepare
for the next wave in web development: XHTML. But don't override
the case of attributes, as this can cause problems in special
files that need uppercase attributes (like .htaccess files).
- Line Breaks: Confirm this is set to LF (UNIX) to match
the www.bu.edu and people.bu.edu servers.
Strongly recommended settings for the File Types / Editors category:
- Open in Code View: Add .htaccess, .template,
.message, .asis to the list of file types Dreamweaver can open
and edit. This will allow you to edit several types of files
(such
as files used for restricting access and those used by BU's forms
processing program PonyExpress) without launching other software
applications.
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