Reinstalling And Uninstalling Dreamweaver In A Multiuser Environment; Customizing Default Documents; Customizing Page Designs; Customizing The Appearance Of Dialog Boxes - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual

Reinstalling and uninstalling Dreamweaver in a multiuser environment

After you install Dreamweaver, if you later reinstall it or upgrade to a later version, Dreamweaver
automatically makes backup copies of existing user configuration files, so that if you've
customized those files, you can still access the changes you made. When you uninstall
Dreamweaver from a multiuser system (which you can do only if you have administrative
privileges), Dreamweaver can remove each user Configuration folder for you.

Customizing default documents

The DocumentTypes/NewDocuments folder contains a default (blank) document of each type
that you can create using Dreamweaver. When you create a new blank document by selecting
File > New and selecting an item from the Basic Page, Dynamic Page, or Other categories,
Dreamweaver bases the new document on the appropriate default document in this folder. To
change what appears in a default document of a given type, edit the appropriate document in
this folder.
Note: If you want all the pages in your site to contain common elements (such as a copyright notice)
or a common layout, it's better to use templates and library items than to change the default
documents. For more information on templates and library items, see Dreamweaver Help (Help >
Using Dreamweaver).

Customizing page designs

Dreamweaver provides a variety of predesigned cascading style sheets, framesets, and page designs.
You can create pages based on these designs by selecting File > New.
To customize the available designs, edit the files in BuiltIn/css, BuiltIn/framesets,
BuiltIn/Templates, and BuiltIn/TemplatesAccessible folders.
Note: The designs listed in the Page Designs and Page Designs (Accessible) categories are
Dreamweaver template files; for more information on templates, see Dreamweaver Help (Help >
Using Dreamweaver).
You can also create custom page designs by adding files to the subfolders of the BuiltIn folder. To
make a description of the file appear in the New Document dialog box, create a Design Notes file
(in the appropriate _notes folder) that corresponds to the page design file.

Customizing the appearance of dialog boxes

The dialog box layouts for objects, commands, and behaviors are specified as HTML forms; they
reside in HTML files in the Configuration folder within the Dreamweaver application folder. You
edit these forms as you would edit any form in Dreamweaver. For more information, see
Dreamweaver Help (Help > Using Dreamweaver).
Note: Remember that in a multiuser operating system, you should edit copies of configuration files in
your user Configuration folder rather than editing Dreamweaver configuration files. For more
information, see "Multiuser Configuration folders" on page
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