Macromedia Dreamweaver – Macromedia Dreamweaver MX keyboard shortcuts You can download the Windows or the Mac version of the keyboard shortcuts.
Category: Dreamweaver
Accessibility Help from Macromedia
Macromedia – Accessibility tells you how to use Dreamweaver to create accessible Web sites. Lots of tips and resources.
Tip: Modify Dreamweaver’s default HTML New Document
Dreamweaver inserts an incomplete DOCTYPE in its default New Document. You can modify that. In Dreamweaver, open the default.html page located in Dreamweaver’s Application Folder > Configuration/DocumentTypes/NewDocuments. Look at Code View and find the DOCTYPE in line one. It says:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”>
Edit that line to add a URL before the closing greater than bracket, like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”>
Save and close the page.
Congratulations! Every new default HTML page you create with Dreamweaver will now have a correct DOCTYPE.
This tip is from the Student edition of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide that I’m in the process of writing.
Where to find Dreamweaver Extensions
Extension Resources at Dreamweaver FAQ.com This is a handy compilation of all the places offering Dreamweaver extensions, put together by the folks at Dreamweaver FAQ.
New Dreamweaver MX books
Many new titles are appearing for Dreamweaver MX now. One I haven’t seen yet is Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX. The three authors are Tom Green, Jordan Chilcott and Chris Flick, all well known in the Dreamweaver ‘community.’ They say the book takes a different approach to the topic and that the book’s supporting web site will offer many resources related to Macromedia MX. More to come on this one, as soon as I know more.
Tip: Dreamweaver MX Site Definitions on OS X
We have previously explained how to find the preferences file for the Dreamweaver site definitions using a Mac. With Mac OS X and the new Dreamweaver MX, the site definitions have moved. Here is where to find them now.
/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/Dreamweaver MX Prefs
This is the file that contains your FTP info and your passwords. Making a backup copy if you have to reinstall DW can save you a lot of time.
Dreamweaver and empty alt tags
Macromedia – How can I add empty ALT values to image objects? explains how to customize Dreamweaver so that empty alt tags can be added to img tags. For images used as spacers or other non-content purposes, adding an empty alt tag allows text to screen readers to ignore the image.