Using Design Notes in Java

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If you sometimes forget the details of your work or neglect to tell your colleagues important things about the Web site you re all working on, the Dreamweaver Design Notes feature may save you some grief Design Notes are ideal if you want to hide sensitive information from visitors, such as pricing structures or creative strategies, but make it available to members of your development team Information saved as a Design Note in Dreamweaver can travel with any HTML file or image, even if the file transfers from one Web site to another or from Fireworks to Dreamweaver

Essentially, Design Notes enable you to record information (such as a message to another designer on your team) and associate it with a file or folder Design Notes work a lot like the comment tag (HTML code that enables you to embed text in a page that won t display in a browser) but with a bit more privacy Unlike the comment tag, which is embedded directly in the HTML code of a page (and can be seen if someone views the source code behind a page on the Web), Design Notes are never visible to your visitors The only way for a visitor to view Design Notes is to deliberately type the path to your notes subdirectory and view the notes files directly You can even explicitly block this from being allowed, but only if you have administrative access to your server To be even more secure, you can keep the notes on your hard drive and prevent them from ever being uploaded to your server though, of course, your team members won t see your witty remarks To access the Design Notes page, choose Design Notes in the Category list in the Site Definition dialog box (see Figure 4-17) The settings on this page enable you to control how Dreamweaver uses Design Notes: Maintain Design Notes: Select this option to ensure that the Design Note remains attached to the file when you upload, copy, or move it Upload Design Notes for Sharing: Choose this option to include Design Notes when you send files to the server via FTP Clean Up: This button enables you to delete Design Notes no longer associated with files or folders in your site When you create graphics in Macromedia Fireworks, you can save a Design Note for each image file that is also available in Dreamweaver To use this integrated feature, create a Design Note in Fireworks and associate it with the image Then when you save the Fireworks image to your local Web site folder, the Design Note goes with it When you open the file in Dreamweaver, the Design Note displays when you right-click the image (Control+click on the Mac) This feature is a great way for graphic designers to communicate with other members of the Web development team To activate the Design Notes feature, follow these steps: 1 Choose Site Manage Sites The Manage Sites dialog box opens 2 Select the site you want to work on and then click the Edit button The Site Definition dialog box opens 3 Select the Advanced tab 4 In the Category list at the left, choose Design Notes The Design Notes page appears (refer to Figure 4-17)

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Figure 4-17: The Design Notes page lets you include Design Notes when sending files to the Web server

5 Select the Maintain Design Notes option With this option selected, whenever you copy, move, rename, or delete a file, the associated Design Notes file is also copied, moved, renamed, or deleted with it 6 If you want your Design Notes to be sent with your files when they are uploaded to your server, select the Upload Design Notes for Sharing option If you re making notes only to yourself and don t want them to be associated with the page when you upload it to the server, deselect this option and Design Notes is maintained locally but not uploaded with your file 7 Click OK in the Site Definition dialog box; then click the Done button in the Manage Sites dialog box The Manage Sites dialog box closes To add Design Notes to a document, follow these steps: 1 Open the file you want to add a Design Note to and choose File Design Notes The Design Notes dialog box opens (see Figure 4-18) You need to have a file checked out to add or modify a Design Note, but not to read a note