Dreamweaver 8: Buried in the Basement
Part 10, “Buried in the Basement” was written because it had to be. It is the one departure from the theme of this series, or rather, I should say “semi-departure”. Not everything discussed in this article is new with Dreamweaver 8, but I felt it was important to do a chapter like this if for no other reason than to invoke user awareness.
The Results Panel, or “basement” as I like to call it, is by some standards, “boring” because it doesn’t design, it doesn’t create the pages and so it lies down there under the Property Inspector, largely unnoticed and massively underutilized. But it contains within its tabs a series of very powerful utilities designed to help you find problems, validate pages, look for errors, batch process word replacement and print a stack of reports that I promise you, once you use a couple of times, you will not do without in the future.
This article is part of the new interactive e-book; Dreamweaver Crystal Gazer: The Power Of Dreamweaver 8
Overview
Macromedia did do one important thing with this group in Dreamweaver 8. They moved the Reference Panel into the basement, making it easier to use and actually read. But moving the Reference Panel into the Results Panel has also had one other effect, at least on me. It’s made me look at what else was down there and I’m very glad I did. I now find myself using both functions and reports that I barely even knew existed and both have improved my workflow.
It is my hope that the inclusion of this chapter will also motivate you to go down and poke around in the basement.
In early 1996, Nancy Gill picked up her first book on HTML and permanently said goodbye to the legal field. She has been busy ever since developing web sites for businesses, organizations and social groups in Central California and occasionally beyond. Nancy has served as a member of Team Macromedia since late 2001, first with UltraDev and then moving to Dreamweaver when the programs were consolidated in 2002. She also serves as Assistant Manager for the Central California Macromedia User's Group.
Nancy is the co-author of Dreamweaver MX: Instant Trouble-Shooter and technical editor for several Dreamweaver and Contribute related books, including the well-known Dreamweaver MX 2004: A Complete Reference. She also penned the first ever Contribute article for Macromedia's Own Devnet "Getting Up to Speed with Contribute in 10 Minutes".
Nancy has three children, two in college and one in high school. Offline, she enjoys various sporting activities, is a wild NFL football fan and sings in the church choir.
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