FLASH: RE: Learning HTML (now: Dreamweaver)

[John Dowdell]

Roger Smith wrote:

> Cold Fusion is awesome. I think you need to have

> the hand building expertise


Or use Dreamweaver 2. On the CD it has readymade ColdFusion objects... you

can design data-driven sites in a visual environment.



Keith Robinson wrote, in part:

> The [Dreamweaver] code is usually fairly clean (being a coder and

> accessibility person it's not clean enough, and I have to tweak

> the HTML afterwards almost every time, not too much....but c'est la vie.)


Keith, have you explored the control you have over default formatting in

Dreamweaver 2.0 yet? It was possible to control this a bit in DW1.x, but

2.0 adds quite a bit more here. I'm not sure what types of edits you're

making, but you may be able to front-load them and have the tool apply your

desired formatting itself.


First place to check is the preferences dialog. There are deeper levels of

control if you edit the "SourceFormat.profile" file directly.



Handy tip: If you get some messy HTML from someone else, then you can

usually do an excellent job of fixing it with three different processes:

  --  Use "tables to layers" and back again to clean tables (with optional

layer snapping if the table has 1-pixel rows)

  --  Use the "Clean Up HTML" command to remove unused or redundant tags

  --  Use the "Apply Source Formatting" command to format the entire

document in your preferred style.



Sidenote: In version 2.0, Dreamweaver has broken from the pack... it's no

longer just an editor, but more a high-powered development platform for web

professionals. Still does HTML editing, sure, but there's a *very* rich

world in there...!



jd





John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

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