Dreamweaver's Design Notes are XML files that Dreamweaver places on the site that can be used by Web team members to annotate changes or note when a file was modified and by whom. A Design Note is associated with a file on your site, but it is a separate XML file with different fields that can be read by the Macromedia programs ( Figure 16.18 ). Design Note files aren't visible to your site's visitors . Figure 16.18. Design Notes are XML files that Dreamweaver knows how to read.
You can create a Design Note yourself, and Dreamweaver and other programs in Macromedia Studio 8 can also make automated Design Note entries. For example, when you create an image in Fireworks, then export it to Dreamweaver, Fireworks creates (and places in the Dreamweaver site) a Design Note entry for the exported file, which could be in GIF or JPEG format. The entry records the name of the Fireworks source file (remember, the Fireworks file format is PNG) associated with the exported image in your site. That's how Dreamweaver and Fireworks know how to integrate the Fireworks source PNG with the exported site image when you go to edit it (refer to Chapter 8 for more information about editing Dreamweaver images with Fireworks). Dreamweaver stores Design Notes in folders called _notes in each of the site folders that have files with associated notes ( Figure 16.19 ). These notes folders contain one Design Note file for each site file that has a note. Figure 16.19. Design Notes appear in the special _notes folders Dreamweaver creates in your site.
To add a Design Note:
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To modify a Design Note:
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