Using Design Notes

Design notes are useful for keeping track of information related to your files. These notes are for your information only; they are hidden text files that cannot be accessed or displayed in browsers by the users of your site. You can share information with your co-workers easily by uploading design notes to the remote server. These notes can be used with all files in your site.

1.	Choose Site > Manage Sites. Select the Yoga Sangha site and click Edit. Select the File View Columns category and select the Notes item in the list of File View Columns. Check the Show box in the options section. Click OK to apply the changes to the Site and click Done on the Manage Sites dialog box. The Notes column must be enabled for you to see the design note that you will create in the Files panel.
2.	In the Files panel, select the AboutGreen.html file in the Lesson_14_Sites/Community folder. Click the Options menu on the Files panel and choose File > Design Notes (Macintosh only) or right-click the AboutGreen.html file and choose Design Notes. Note You can also attach a design note from the Files panel by double-clicking the Notes column for the selected file or by choosing the option from the context menu, which you can access by right-clicking or Ctrl-clicking (Macintosh single button mouse) the file. The Design Notes dialog box appears. You can use the method used in this step to attach a design note to a file when it is selected in the Files panel or when the file is open in the Document window. The Basic Info tab displays information about the file to which the note will be attached and the path of that file in the site. You can change the status of the file by making a choice from the Status menu. Note The Design Notes category in the Site Definition dialog box allows you to turn design notes on or off. By default, both the Maintain Design Notes and the Upload Design Notes For Sharing boxes are checked. Dreamweaver automatically uploads or downloads the design notes for any file you get, put, check in, or check out from the remote server when the Upload Design Notes For Sharing checkbox is checked.
3.	Click the Date icon above the right corner of the Notes text box. Select revision1 from the Status menu and check the Show When File Is Opened box. Click OK. Note When using file Check In/Out, you will need to ensure that the file is checked out to create a design note. In this case, the file has not previously been checked in, so you can add the design note without checking out the file. The date is inserted into the first line of the Notes text box. Use this area to enter any important information about your files. The Show When File Is Opened box at the bottom of this window allows you have this note displayed when the file is openeda good way to be sure your team members take notice of your notes. The Design Notes dialog box closes, and the note is attached to the AboutGreen.html file with the information you added.
4.	In the Local Files pane of the Files panel, scroll to the right until you see the Notes column.

The Design Notes icon is displayed as a yellow text bubble in the Notes column, located to the right of the filename, indicating that a note is attached to the file.

Tip

To edit the note, double-click the Design Notes icon (the yellow bubble) to reopen the Design Notes dialog box.