Use Design Notes to keep track of site assets
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Associating a Design Note with a file
To associate a Design Note with a file:
- Open a file in Dreamweaver.
- From the File menu, choose Design Notes. The Design Notes dialog appears. The Basic Info tab is selected by default.
- From the Status drop-down menu, choose a status category for the page (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Enter file information on the Basic Info tab of the Design Notes dialog.
- Click the Date icon to add the current date to the Notes field.
- In the Notes field, enter your comments about the file.
- Select the “Show when file is opened” option if you want the Design Note to automatically open when the file is opened.
- Click the All Info tab to display the All Info pane.
- On the All Info pane, file information is displayed as name-value pairs. Select an item in the Info field to display its information in the Name and Value fields (Figure 4). Click the plus (+) button to add a name-value pair.
Figure 4: Add or delete name-value pairs on the All Info tab of the Design Notes dialog.
- Click the Minus (–) button to delete a namevalue pair.
- Click OK to save the Design Note and close the dialog.
Where to go from here
For more information about setting up a Dreamweaver site, check out the following resources:
- Create and configure a Dreamweaver site, by Lucinda Dykes
- Prepare your web server for file handling using a remote folder in Dreamweaver 8, by Lucinda Dykes
- Preview and test dynamic pages on a testing server, by Lucinda Dykes
