Working with HTML
WebDesign provides many features specifically for working with HTML. Many of the features that it provides automates tasks which could take a whole lot longer to complete. Most of these features can be found in the HTML Tools menu.
- If you would rather not be bothered with the HTML code within your document and just focus on the text portion you can use WebDesign's Condense Markup feature (option-command-E)
- Some people prefer to write their HTML tags in uppercase so that the HTML code is more recognizable. Other people however, prefer to write their HTML code in lowercase because lowercase code is becoming the standard. WebDesign allows you to convert your Markup from uppercase to lowercase instantly.
- Before making your site live it is important that you check to make sure that your HTML syntax is correct. This allows you to find errors in your code which may cause browsers to render your page incorrectly. It also allows you to see if you have used any tags or attributes that are not standard and may not be compatible with some browsers. Go to HTML Tools->Check Document Syntax (option-shift-command-Y) to check your HTML syntax.
- If your web site is geared towards a large audience you may want to consider translating it into a multiple languages. WebDesign provides this feature built in making it extremely easy.
- If your web site contains a lot of text and formatting and you later would like to use that text for offline viewing, printing or simply sending to someone who does not want to use their web browser to read it, WebDesign allows you to remove Markup (option-command-H) instantly.
- During development it is common to use many comments in your HTML code so that you can remember why you wrote something the way you did or if your are working with a team of developers it is a good idea to use comments so that other developers will be able to work with your code more easily. afterwards if you would like to remove these comments to decrease the file size so that it can load faster, WebDesign can strip your HTML Comments for you.
- Extra line breaks in web pages can really add up resulting in larger file sizes and causing pages to take longer to be displayed in a web browser. WebDesign provides the ability to remove all line breaks (command-Y) in your document.
- Empty attributes are common when writing HTML code and can result in an unneeded increase in file size. WebDesign can remove all empty attributes in your document automatically.
- WebDesign provides other optimization features (option-command-Y) which can substantially reduce the size of your document.
- If you would like your web site to be accessible by users using handheld devices such as PDA's or cell phones you can convert your HTML document to XHTML from within WebDesign.