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Shortcut: Go to code

April 20, 2009

Right click/Control click on a style name in Dreamweaver's Style Palette, select Go To Code and the CSS code for the clicked style will be displayed in the code window. The same context menu allows you to edit, create, move and remove styles from your style sheets.

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Status Bar Shortcuts

April 19, 2009

Dreamweaver's Status Bar (at the bottom of the Document Window) is often overlooked. It shows the currently selected HTML tag as well as its parent tags and allows you to select a parent tag by simply clicking on it. But there's more! Right click/Control click on a tag in the Status Bar and the pop-up [...]

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Shortcut: Open linked page

April 18, 2009

In Dreamweaver Right click/Control click on a link to any file within your web site and select Open Linked Page (about half way down the menu) to open the linked file in Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver Dirty Little Secret: The Align item in the same menu is were you can use the html align attribute to center [...]

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Upgrading from Dreamweaver 8 to CS4

April 2, 2009

Personally I considered Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe's first upgrade to the program after acquiring it, to be a "must have" update.Obviously, a lot of you didn't see it that way.

Lately I've fielded a lot of questions from people considering upgrading from Dreamweaver 8 (CS2) to Dreamweaver CS4. While it's fairly easy to find information about the incremental updates: from DW8 to CS3 and from CS3 to CS4 (links at the end of this post) I haven't found a source that offers an overview of what's in store if you make the leap from 8 directly to CS4. So I've put together a quick overview with some brief comments of the features that await you at the end of the DW8 to DWCS4 upgrade process.

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Shortcut: Add HTML tag around selected text

March 31, 2009

I just picked up this Dreamweaver tip from @tomwittlin on Twitter: To any tag around a bit of text or code simply make a selection and type Ctrl+T (Cmd+T Mac). Double-click on the tag you want to wrap around the selection and type Enter. It also works with not text selected if you want to [...]

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