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Setting up new document preferences

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Setting up new document preferences

Based on the method that you use for creating new documents, Dreamweaver often makes a lot of the key decisions for you as it creates the new page. Whenever you start a new project, or when your page requirements in your site changes, it's a good idea to take a few moments to set up your new document preferences so that Dreamweaver will create new pages to your proper specification. So to do that, I'm just going to open up my Dreamweaver Preferences. You can find those on the PC, by going to Edit>Preferences, and of course on the Mac you'll go to Dreamweaver>Preferences. Now, what I'm looking for this time is the New Document category, right over here on the left-hand side. We don't have very many choices here, but the choices that we do have are incredibly important. So the first thing that it's going to ask me is what default document type do I want? And if I need something other than HTML, for example, if I'm working on a ColdFusion site, I choose ColdFusion from this. For what…

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