Design Notes

Design Notes are an excellent resource in Dreamweaver to help Web developers collaborate and communicate with other members of the Web staff (or just to make notes to yourself). Dreamweaver stores Design Notes in a separate file, so the notes do not appear in your Web documents.

Using Design Notes, you can set the status of a document (revision, draft, needs work, etc.) as well as make documents, track the date of editing changes, and a host of other options. You can also select a check box to force the Design Note to open automatically if you have a note that must be read by the next person who accesses a specific document.

Access the Design Notes for any individual document by using the "File" pull-down menu and click on "Design Notes" to open the following dialog box.

You can also determine which files on your site have Design Notes attached to them by right clicking on the page in the Site Management window and choosing Design Notes..

To set your design notes to display in the Site View, go to "Site", "Manage Sites" and edit your site definition. Select "File View Columns", "Notes" and make sure that the "Show" checkbox has been selected. Select "OK" and exit from the menus; any design notes should now display next to file names.