[thelist] adding behaviors to DW templated pages

At 12:11 PM 1/7/0, Peter Bancroft wrote a TIP:
>When using Dreamweaver (derno about 3) try not to highlight sections in the
>WYSIWYG too often while messing about with font colors, sizes, aligning and
>stuff.  You tend to get all kinds of &nbps covered with new font colors,
>styles and the like.

The flip side of is the "Do be a Do Bee" of using the little hierarchical
selector in the bottom left of of the visual design frame. This usually
shows [BODY] [TABLE] [TR] [TD] or whatever, but can also be used to
*select* a tag further up the hierarchy. If you want to manipulate the
existing FONT tag, then do so, instead of making another FONT for a
slightly different span of text.

DW3 tip: Use the new "Select Parent" keyboard shortcut in the Edit menu to
jump up a selection level... this way you can swipe some text within a FONT
and _guarantee_ that you get the surrounding FONT tag instead of just a
different chunk of text. (This can change your workflow significantly...
select things and CMD/SHIFT-angleBracket (or CTRL-SHIFT) to go up and down
the selection tree.


(For the original post, I'm glad you found the technote, but the big point
is that Dreamweaver templates are *locked* documents with editable regions.
If you'd like dynamic updates of page components then library items can
help too, and you'd still have a fully editable document structure.)

jd