This may be your first experience with Dreamweaver. If not, do your best to reflect on the following questions anyway. What did you find most confusing or puzzling about Dreamweaver? What surprised you? What irritated you? If you have used other web editing programs, how does Dreamweaver initially compare?
My big puzzle circles around the remote host. There are a lot of prompts coming up about what to do with file transfers. Mainly dealing with dependent files. Should I just deal with it or turn off the prompts?
I was irate when I uploaded a file different than the one I had just been editing. If a different file is selected in the File Panel, Dreamweaver uploaded that file and not the file being edited in the document window.
I have not really used other web editing programs in depth, so I don't have a good comparison.
Thankful Thursday
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Happy start of May! Today's list, working backward in time a bit...I'm
thankful for...
1. *Finishing up at UNC for the academic year*. So, tomorrow is te...
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The behavior of uploading what is highlighted rather than what is open is the standard convention-- the reason being that generally if a page is open it is considered to still be in the editing process and not a usual candidate for upload.
The "dependent files" thing is Dreamweaver trying to help you out. If you want to publish a page with four pictures on it, then you actually have to transfer 5 files-- the page itself and the 4 images-- if you allow DW to upload dependent files, it will upload all those linked files so you don't have to. This is a real benefit on complicated pages and on pages with images and other objects that reside in different folders... but just an annoyance with small sites and/or simple pages.
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