I have just formatted my drive C after having a new hard disk and installed everything again and again. Of course Dreamweaver is also installed from scratch. After starting Dreamweaver for the first time I need to set some settings. Here is what I do after a new Dreamweaver installation.
- First I am a ColdFusion/Flex developer and I prefer code environment.
- Then "Edit-> Preferences" and some "must have" changes.
- Code Hints: "After typing the open tag's. ">"."
- New Document: "Default document -> ColdFusion template", "Default encoding -> Unicode", check for "Include Unicode Signature (BOM)".
- Validator: XHTML 1.0 transitional
- and some other stuff which are not so important but would be good for me.
- General: check for "Reopen documents on startup"
- Code Coloring: ColdFusion (this selection was a bug and do not work on every Dreamweaver installation)
- Code Format: check for "Automatic wrapping"
If you have other initial setup for CF in Dreamweaver, please share with us.
Somewhere between editing in code and design views (going back and forth), DW will replace cfoutput #variables# with {curly braces} which really messes up my code and I have to revert to a backup copy or undo if the history goes back far enough.