Tip of the Day

Recovering a Dreamweaver Template

May 13, 2009

More Dreamweaver Recovery Tips: Recover Dreamweaver Site Definitions | Recover Dreamweaver Passwords Now that I've gotten Let's Get Started with Dreamweaver out the door, I thought it would be a good time to catch up on a few Tips of the Day (which you may have noticed haven't been happening lately). I have still been [...]

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Recover FTP password

April 28, 2009

More Dreamweaver Recovery Tips: Recover Dreamweaver Template | Recover Dreamweaver Site Definitions I always warn my Dreamweaver students not to save their FTP password with their site information if they are working a public computer. If they do, anyone with access to the computer will have access to their website. In addition, the password encryption [...]

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Keyboard Shortcut: Design View to Code View round trip

April 27, 2009

Design to Code View and Back: Control+~(tilde) will alternate your work space between Design and Code Views. This is one of those rare shortcuts that uses the same keys for both PC and Mac!

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Keyboard Shortcut: Apply heading or paragraph tags

April 24, 2009

Thanks to @Ivanico on Twitter for pointing out today's ToTD. With the cursor in a text block, you can type Control+[1-6]/Command+[1-6] to apply a heading (h1-6) tag to the block. And, with the cursor in a heading, you can type Control+0 (zero)/Command+0 to change the heading to a paragraph.

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Rebuilding Dreamweaver Preferences

April 23, 2009

It shouldn't happen but occasionally even good programs (Dreamweaver included) go bad . If Dreamweaver continually crashes on opening (or exhibits other strange behavior) one of the first things to try is recreating the preferences file. For Mac OS X/DW CS4: Quit Dreamweaver (if it already hasn't done that for you!). Locate the Adobe Dreamweaver [...]

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Shortcut: Navigating tabbed documents

April 22, 2009

Navigate tabbed documents in Dreamweaver: Next document (right) Control+Tab (PC)/Command+~ (Tilde) (Mac)  - Previous document (left) Control+Shift+Tab (PC)/Command+Shift+~ (Mac).

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Shortcut: Locate file

April 21, 2009

To locate a file on your server Right click/Control click on the file in your Local Files window and select Locate in Remote Site from the pop-up menu. If you're not already connected, Dreamweaver will connect to your server and highlight the file in the Remote Files window. It also works for locating a file [...]

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