
FIGURE 3-14
The Document toolbar offers easy access to an important element of a Web page, the title.
Show Code View
Show Code and Design View
Show Design View
Live Data View
Document Title
Refresh Design View
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Show Code View
Live Code View
The first set of buttons in the Document toolbar is dedicated to the various views: Code, Code and
Design (also called Split view), and Design. These buttons are mutually exclusive because only one
view can be shown at a time. To the right of the first three buttons is one more view-related button:
Live Data view. As previously explained, when Live Data view is enabled, Dreamweaver sends your
page to the testing server and incorporates the results in an editable format on the screen. When you
switch to Live Data view, another toolbar becomes visible; it is described later in this chapter in the
section “The Live Data Toolbar.”
Next to the Live Data View button is a text field for displaying and altering the title of your docu-
ment. Dreamweaver, by default, titles every new page Untitled Document. Not only is it considered
bad form to keep this default title, search engines need a relevant title to properly index a site. To
change a page title, enter the new text in the Title field and press Enter (Return) to confirm your
modification.
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