Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER

Creating and Managing Files

Last updated 3/28/2012

3. Check your site for broken links and fix them.

Other sites undergo redesign and reorganization too, and the page you’re linking to may have been moved or deleted.

You can run a link check report to test your links.

4. Monitor the file size of your pages and the time they take to download.

Keep in mind that if a page consists of one large table, in some browsers, visitors will see nothing until the entire table

finishes loading. Consider breaking up large tables; if this is not possible, consider putting a small amount of content—

such as a welcome message or an advertising banner—outside the table at the top of the page so users can view this

material while the table downloads.

5. Run a few site reports to test and troubleshoot the entire site.

You can check your entire site for problems, such as untitled documents, empty tags, and redundant nested tags.

6. Validate your code to locate tag or syntax errors.

7. Update and maintain the site after its published.

Publishing your site—that is, making it live—can be accomplished in several ways and is an ongoing process. An

important part of the process is defining and implementing a version-control system, either with the tools

Dreamweaver includes or through an external version-control application.

8. Use the discussion forums.

The Dreamweaver discussion forums can be found on the Adobe website at

www.adobe.com/go/dreamweaver_newsgroup.

The forums are a great resource for getting information on different browsers, platforms, and so on. You can also

discuss technical issues and share helpful hints with other Dreamweaver users.

For a tutorial on troubleshooting publishing problems, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0164.