Dreamweaver Settings

I would like to change a setting in the deafult when you
create a new site in dreamweaver.
I use Dreamwevaer 8 on Mac OS X. Is there a way to change the
default on the URL prefix on the testing server? I pick ColdFusion,
and the local/Network.
I always says,"
http://Macintosh HD/" and I would like
to change it to, "
http://localhost:8500" or
something else.
Is this possible?
Thanks so much,
John

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"duaneao" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Elaine, thanks for the quick response. That's the
puzzling thing. I use
> Dreamweaver MX 6.0. Under "Site" Category, the boxes are
unchecked for
> Putting/Getting the Dependent files. I've closed and
restarted the
> program, yet
> I'm still prompted to approve uploading all the
dependent files. Also,
> when I
> reply "No to all", the program still proceeds to upload
all dependent
> files. Am
> I still missing a necessary setting in Dreamweaver?
Thanks much.
>
> Duane Otremba
>

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"cdembek" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I have to rebuild my machine and wanted to make sure that
I don't lose my
> snippets and installed extensions and settings to
dreamweaver. So I was
> wondering if there is a check list of items that I
should go thru to
> insure my
> rebuild doesn't turn into a headache
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installing as a
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%UserProfile%\Application
Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver\Configuration. I prefer the
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MUST be
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PS I think this needs to be in the "General" forum instead?

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Rename the c:\users profile folder
Rename the appropriate [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList] registry key
Reboot and log in as the affected user, confirm that there is no error
Reboot and log in as the other user
Copy the C:\Users\<profile folder>\AppData\Local\microsoft\Office\14.0 folder to the other user's desktop
Delete new profile folder, and rename the backup to be the production folder
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Reboot and log in as the affected user, confirm that there is no error
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We may attempt to script this, but the self-help instructions are only 5 lines long:
Reboot and log into the affected computer with another account
Go to <link to location of 14.0 folder on network> and copy the 14.0 folder
Run Windows Explorer as Administrator
Go to c:\users\<profile folder>\appdata\local\microsoft\office and delete the 14.0 folder, and paste the copied 14.0 folder (trying to overwrite it makes Win7 want to merge the folders)
Reboot and log into your normal account, and confirm the error is gone
I'll come back and report after we go into the field with this fix, but after the few tests, I am cautiously optimistic that this is it.

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Hello. I need some quick help please.
Every time I go to preview in browser, Dreamweaver asks "This
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others working on the file." I don't know what happened. Previously
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hit yes (to continue) to preview in browser, the browser opens and
nothing is displayer. In fact, in the browser the address reads
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> And I have to have ftp selected as my access method
1. Are you using the real remote host as the Testing Server?
2. Do you need to use a testing server for the survey script?
Or is it a
self-contained third-party script?
3. probably cause of problem- you have entered ftp: into the
"url prefix"
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the real server as the testing server.
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Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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DW's mess described:
All indents are as spaces, making manual clean-up repetitive, necessary and extremely tedious.
The head and body tags are indented far inside their content, and that content is also erratically indented.
The use of Tag library editor would seem the expected user path, in seeking a user resolution, and perhaps in defining a programmatic intervention.
All tags are trashed, put going to the heart of the html cascade, we start with the p tag: e.g., p tag in Tag libraries defaults as
Line breaks: before and after tag
Contents: formatted and indented
Case: default
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The p tag settings do not appear to effect the mess. Dreamweaver, ignores default and manual settings, sometimes shuffling the mess a little, but minor shuffling only occurring twice, and without any tag block line break changes.
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IMPORTANT:
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I figured it out. Under the Configuration/TagLibraries,
create a CrossTagAttr folder and stick a .vtm file in it. In the
.vtm file, use the <crosstag_attributes> tag and its
children. See Configuration/TagLibraries/CrossTagAttr/Spry/Spry.vtm
for an example.

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I will be getting a new Mac Pro in a day or so. I currently have a G4 with all the Adobe suite programs and more. I am wondering if it is best to install those fresh. It sure would help to get all my Dreamweaver settings as I have a ton of sites.
Should I just transfer mail and prefs etc.

There are many pros and cons to doing such a thing. The biggest pro to doing so is expediency. Manual transitions, while more efficient, can be quite a pain even when you know what goes where. When this works it works great.
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Then there's the migration itself. With a data only migration I can't see much going wrong but there are instances when a migration does affect total system performance.
So I guess I've not really answered your question. There are benefits to opting both ways.

Issue with tables :( Plz Help!

Hey all!
Never posted before on this forum and pretty new with
dreamweaver. So I'm having the strangest issue with dreamweaver
tables. I bought a template that I'm modifying by my self which
isnt all that hard haha. But Here's what I ran into. Whenever I put
one table and then another one under it and another one under it
and I insert txt or pics in there and save it, after I upload it
and preview it, I can only see the info from the first table.
Everything else under it, wont show up.
So no matter where and on what page I do it from that
template, if I put more than 1 table down, it'll only show the info
from the first and top table and everything else in other tables
under it, wont show up at all (after I upload it) even thou it
looks good on dreamweaver itself :(
Is there an option to enable or disable something? Plz help,
thank you all!

"Unknown7" <[email protected]> wrote:
> So no matter where and on what page I do it from that
template, if I put more
>than 1 table down, it'll only show the info from the
first and top table and
>everything else in other tables under it, wont show up at
all :(
>
> Is there an option to enable or disable something? Plz
help, thank you all!
The bad news is that if you want to do anything remotely
complicated with
Dreamweaver you will have to learn a fair amount about HTML.
I would virtually
guarantee that when you put your new table in something is
going wrong so that
one or other table is not being defined correctly.
As you are modifying someone else's template there is
virtually no way to find
out what is happening other than to examine the HTML. It is
unlikely that
fiddling with any Dreamweaver settings will make any
difference.
Every table should start with something like:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="5"
bgcolor="#e0e0ff">
<tr align="center" valign="middle">
<td width="9%"><a href="#Bottom">
and end with:
</td>
</tr>
</table>
You can have more or less as many columns as you like in a
table, (<td> ...
</td>
And more or less as many rows ( <tr><td> ...
</td></tr>) as you like, but
unless you get up to special tricks you should have the same
number of columns
in every row. You can put anything you like -- images, more
tables, whatever --
inside a cell e.g.:
<td> image, blah, table </td>,
but you mustn't put any content anywhere else, and every
opening definition
(<table>, <tr>, <td> must have a matching
closing definition in the correct
order.
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Dreamweaver Design View
sometimes blows its top if you go more than three deep.
HTML usually doesn't produce any error messages, but the
effect of omitting any
of the steps in building a page is quite unpredictable.
Sometimes a major error
will not produce any visible effect, but on other occasions a
minor error will
send the page completely haywire.
You may care to have a look at:
http://www.corybas.com/Technical/Wrapping.htm
This has a series of demonstration pages illustrating what
happens when you try
to display increasingly complicated page layouts on narrow
screens.
Once you have learnt to interpret HTML, you can often learn a
lot by inspecting
the source code for the page (in IE click view, then Source).
This works with
anybody's page, so you can look at the source code for my
pages if you wish.
Clancy

br / instead of br

Quick question -
When I use the quick tag select - where you hit the tag you
want Dreamweaver to paste into the code - when I hit the 'break'
tag it adds it as <br>. I would like it to add it as <br
/>.
How do I make Dreamweaver add the break the way I want it
added as?
Thanks for the help everyone.
Amber.

As you can see below, the smileys look crappy when reading
from NNTP. It's
better not to use them at all. Note also what happens to your
formatting
<sigh>.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"UniquelyAm" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>
John, yeah, I use that
Search & Replace function all the
> time.
> One of my favorite and most used Dreaweaver features.
> I was being sarcastic, hence the '
sticking tongue out' smiley
>
:p
> Regardless anything '
extra' that I would have to do to change the
>
<br>'s to
<br />'s would be more time-consuming than just
> having
> it add the
<br /> to begin with. But since it's only a few
seconds
> to do
> something else to change the
<br>'s, I had written it with a bit of
> exaggeration.
> I guess I should remember that not everyone thinks like
me and knows why I
> do
> what I do and say what I say all the time, not to
mention we're also on
> the
> Internet reading what I say instead of hearing what I
say and how I say
> it.
> Thanks for jumping in to try and help me out there,
though. That's
>
always appreciated.
>
>
Murray, thanks for that.
> I normally create a file from within the '
Files' panel that I have
> placed on my right-hand side of Dreamweaver. I have
Dreamweaver FTPing to
> my
> remote server and I go to the directory on the server
that I want to add a
> file
> or folder to and add it from there - 'right-click' on
the remote folder I
> want
> the new file added to and then just open it.
> Here's an image of what I'm talking about, not that you
may need it -
>
>
http://www.uniquelyam.com/img/screenies/dwremote.jpg
>
> I have my Dreamweaver settings/preferences set to always
create a new file
> using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional. So it automatically
adds it at the top
> of
> every new file I create.
>
> When I was having issues with Dreaweaver and another CS3
application of
> mine,
> crashing all the time, I ended up reinstalling it and
still had the
> problem so
> I reinstalled the runtime dll's.
>
>
http://www.gthelp.com/showthread.php?t=87551
>
> It's a pretty long thread. A lot of people were/still
are having the
> issue.
> But it was also a
VERY helpful and supportive thread.
> Anyway, I don't know if the reinstall had anything to do
with the
>
<br>'s not showing up as
<br />'s but when
Silk
> mentioned
> changing the
Text Encoding to
XHTML from the
Page
> Properties settings, I started wondering if it was
another encoding
> setting
> somewhere else that if I changed would solve it - and
surprisingly, it
> was.
>
> I had set the '
Edit > Preferences > New Document > Default Document
> Type' and '
Modify > Page Properties > Title/Encoding > Document
> Type' to
XHTML and that
SHOULD have caused Dreamweaver
> to add
>
<br /> instead of
<br> like
Silk had mentioned - but
> it
> didn't, for some reason.
> I ended up looking around after
Silk mentioned that and I found one
> area that didn't have the
Document Type set and I set it and
> somehow it
> magically started working after that.
>
> I think it was just a fluke. It just wasn't doing what
it was supposed to
> be
> doing for whatever reason and once I slapped it around a
bit it finally
> shaped
> up and started doing what it was supposed to be doing.
>
> Thanks a lot for adding the tip about the
Control + T in
>
Design
> mode. I didn't know that one either.
> After all this time using Dreamweaver....
> I really need to take some time to check all the
functions that I never
> thought I had a need for. It'd be great if that
Control + T
> function
> worked in
Code mode (I like the drop-down from the
Control +
> T),
> because I never use
Design mode, besides I can
Save and then
> just
> refresh the web page because I have Dreamweaver FTPing
to my remote server
> so I
> get a "
truer" view of my website than with the
Design mode
> view.
>
> I have the tutorial DVDs of '
Total Training Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
> Essentials' that I really should take the time to
look at for the
> simple
> fact that there are
TONS of time-saving features that I still
> haven't
> checked out or even know about with Dreamweaver. And
more are probably
> being
> added on or changed with each new version.
> Anything to help my productivity would save me time
which in turn would
> increase my earnings because I'd be able to get more
websites done,
> quicker.
> And god knows we could use the extra money. Especially
with the cost of
> these
> applicationss! I purchase every version of every
application that Adobe
> and the
> ones that Macromedia used to come out with. It'd be a
blessing if they
> were
> cheaper - it has cost me a fortune but they do
everything I need to get
> done
> and have been a great help, so I can't really b!tch...
>
> Anyway, I've gone
WAY off topic and this one site I'm doing is
> going to
> take a good while and I can't afford to spend ages on it
- so
BACK TO
> WORK!
>
> You've all been a great help and the issue is sorted - I
have my
<br
> />
> back!
> While it may not seem like a big deal to anyone else, it
really was to me
> and
> I
thank you all for taking the time to help me get the issue
> sorted.
>
> Take care all,
> Amber.
> UniquelyAm.com
>

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