Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Unleashed- P6: The good news is Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. The bad news, unfortunately, is that Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. Why so many windows, panels, and so on, Dreamweaver is unprecedented in the feature set it provides, allowing developers complete control when building websites and applications | Allow multiple consecutive spaces By default inserting a normal space into a web page is represented by the Non-Breaking Space nbsp special character. The Non-Breaking Space is accessible by choosing Insert HTML Special Characters Non-Breaking Space or by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl Shift space. Check this option to insert a Non-Breaking Space when the spacebar is pressed. Use strong and em in place of b and i For standards compliancy this option should remain enabled. In fact the World Wide Web Consortium W3C discourages the use of the b and i tags. Choosing this option guarantees that the strong tag Bold is used in place of the b tag and the em tag Italic is used in place of the i tag when their respective buttons are selected from the either the Property inspector or from the Text Style submenu. Use CSS instead of HTML tags As you saw in Chapter 2 deselecting this option allows you to work with traditional HTML formatting options. As you ll see in Chapter 6 Page Formatting Using Cascading Style Sheets you would check this option to work with standards-compliant CSS. Warn when placing editable regions within p or hi - h6 tags This option specifies whether Dreamweaver displays a warning message whenever you save a Dreamweaver template that has an editable region within a paragraph or heading tag. The message tells you that users will not be able to create more paragraphs in the region. It is turned on by default. Centering This option group allows you to specify how centering of content should be handled when the Align Center icon within the Property inspector is selected on an element. Choose the standards-compliant div tag option when you want to wrap your element within a div aiign center tag attribute and value. Choose the center tag option when you want to use the deprecated center tag. The latter option is not recommended by the W3C. Maximum number of history steps Specifies the maximum number of history steps to store in memory. These steps also .
