Mar102006Use the Favorites Bar!
If you use Dreamweaver’s Insert Bar you can click to add most of the HTML you need to build a great Web page—images, tables, div tags, forms and so on. But if you’re like me, you probably don’t even use half of the buttons on the “Common” tab, let alone the Insert Bar’s less frequently visited categories like “Text” or “HTML.” Fortunately, the Insert bar offers a one-stop spot for collecting your most commonly inserted elements: the Favorites tab. To access the tab, just make sure the Insert bar is open (Window→Insert) and select Favorites from the bar’s left-hand pull down menu.
To add items to the tab, right-click (Ctrl-click on Mac) on the bar and select “Customize Favorites” to open the “Customize Favorite Objects” window. The left side of the window lists all of the different objects (like image, table, and so on) from the many different tabs of the Insert bar. Select an object you use frequently, press the >> button to move it onto the right-hand list of your Favorites.
You can reorder the list using the up and down arrows, remove an object from the list by selecting it and pressing the garbage can icon, and even add a seperator line to gather related objects into groups. Once you’re done adding favorites, click the OK button, and your new “modded-out” favorites bar is ready for action.
Here is a video of the process.
Carol Brightbill March 17th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Hello,
I just wanted to thank you for all the work and information that you provide. I’ve been a in graphics since 1978 and have for the past 4 years been trying to really focus on web designing. There is so much to learn and you are such an asset to the entire process.
Thank You!!
Kind Regards,
Carol