DREAMWEAVER CS3
User Guide
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Create other kinds of pages
The Other category of the New Document dialog box lets you create various types of pages that you might want to
use in Dreamweaver, including C#, VBScript, and text-only pages.
1
Select File > New.
2
In the New Document dialog box, select the Other category.
3
Select the kind of document you want to create from the Page Type column and click the Create button.
4
Save the document (File > Save).
Set default document type and encoding
You can define which document type is used as a default document for a site.
For example, if most pages in your site are of a specific file type (such as Cold Fusion, HTML, or ASP documents),
you can set document preferences that automatically create new documents of the specified file type.
1
Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh).
You can also click the Preferences button in the New Document dialog box to set new document preferences when
you create a new document.
2
Click New Document from the category list on the left.
3
Set or change preferences as necessary, and click OK to save them.
Default Document
Select a document type that will be used for pages that you create.
Default Extension
Specify the file extension you prefer (.htm or .html) for new HTML pages you create.
Note:
This option is disabled for other file types.
Default Document Type (DDT)
Select one of the XHTML document type definitions (DTD) to make new pages
XHTML-compliant. For example, you can make an HTML document XHTML-compliant by selecting XHTML 1.0
Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Strict from the menu.
Default Encoding
Specify the encoding to be used when a new page is created, as well as when a document is opened
that does not specify any encoding.
If you select Unicode (UTF-8) as the document encoding, entity encoding is not necessary because UTF-8 can safely
represent all characters. If you select another document encoding, entity encoding may be necessary to represent
certain characters. For more information on character entities, see
www.w3.org/TR/REC-
html40/sgml/entities.html
.
If you select Unicode (UTF-8) as a default encoding, you can include a Byte Order Mark (BOM) in the document by
selecting the Include Unicode Signature (BOM) option.
A BOM is 2-4 bytes at the beginning of a text file that identifies a file as Unicode, as well as the byte order of the
following bytes. Because UTF-8 has no byte order, adding a UTF-8 BOM is optional. For UTF-16 and UTF-32, it is
required.
Unicode Normalization Form
Select one of these options if you select Unicode (UTF-8) as a default encoding.
There are four Unicode Normalization Forms. The most important is Normalization Form C because it's the most
common one used in the Character Model for the World Wide Web. Adobe provides the other three Unicode
Normalization Forms for completeness.
September 4, 2007
