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Check for broken links

Check for broken links - Dreamweaver Tutorial

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Check for broken links

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- [Instructor] Broken links are a sure sign of a poorly maintained website, so it's vital to check the integrity of your links before deploying pages on the web, but Dreamweaver's site management tools have you covered. Before starting this exercise, if you're using the exercise files for this course, you'll need to move the finished_files folder temporarily out of the chapter 10, 10_2 folder. I'm gonna move them to my desktop. So when you've done that, we can then switch to Dreamweaver. We don't actually need to have any files open for this at all. To check the links in your site, you go to the site menu, site options, and then check links sitewide. There's also a keyboard shortcut, control + F8 on Windows or command + F8 on a Mac. Just before I select that, notice that there's also an option to change a link sitewide. If you know that a particular link or filename has changed, you can update all instances in a single operation rather than having to search for every file where it…

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