Tips for Using Dreamweaver on www.washington.edu
Catalyst has several how-to documents on using:
Many of the Catalyst instructions on using Dreamweaver are applicable to www.washington.edu authors.
However, these are a few differences:
- If you have a Nebula-managed computer, you don't need to set up Dreamweaver
to use the secure UW Kerberos FTP Proxy. This is because you can copy files
directly to
I:\groups\www\wwwudev\world\
- If you have Nebula, don't bother configuring the remote information.
- For the local root folder setting, use
/wwwudev. This will allow
documents in Dreamweaver to display properly with files in your local directory.
- Links in your site should be relative, or start at one level below "world", for example:
/admin/xxx/yyy/
- If you use chtml, you can add the markup by using Dreamweaver's
"Insert > Invisible Tags > Comments" feature. Change the palette to "Invisibles", choose
the icon for "insert comment", and then add the chtml markup without the comment tags. For example:
chtml include "//home/incs/headercommon.inc"
Dreamweaver will add the comment tags.
- When everything is working in wwwudev, then
install the site.
These settings will allow you to open the site and use the Get and Put commands (the small
up and down arrows) to transfer files between your local computer and the wwwudev directories.
Using Dreamweaver MX and the Accessibility Checker
These instructions will tell Dreamweaver to publish the accessibility notes in your local directory,
rather than trying to publish to the server root directory.
- Use either
/world or /admin (or another directory one level below world) as the root folder.
- Set up two sites for your directory, one with
/world as the root to preserve visual properties
and one with your site directory as the root, for example: /yyy
- Dreamweaver will complain about problems with file synchronization when you try to set up one site
that has a root that falls within another site, but it will let you do it.
- The accessibility checker will create a
/_notes directory in your site directory, for example:
/yyy/_notes
