There’s a lot of confusion with Web Dev newbies as how to “skip a line” versus “skipping a paragraph”. Dreamweaver’s made it simple:
- Skip a line (Line Break, insert BR html tag) is SHIFT+ENTER
- Skip a paragraph (Paragraph break, insert P tag) is just ENTER.
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Sometimes you need to insert a no break space, or code that looks like this:
into websites while developing. Dreamweaver has a quick and easy way to do this: CTRL+SHIFT+Space.
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If you’ve used Dreamweaver’s Site Management features, it takes a lot of the hassle out of development with built in FTP functionality. If you want to streamline your FTPing, CTRL+SHIFT+D will GET (or download) and CTRL+SHIFT+U will PUT (or upload) — you can also do this with a selection of files.
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Validating your HTML/XHTML is becoming increasingly important in this world data.
Dreamweaver’s quick way that doesn’t involve you having to visit the W3C’s website is Shift+F6 (From Code View).
Dreamweaver is a Robust website development tool which offers three “views”.
Here’s a screenshot of “Split View” [click to enlarge]:
To toggle between Design View/Code View, press CTRL+` (Backtick) – if you’re in split view, to move between the code and the design panes you can use the same shortcut.
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