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Part I
Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS4
Use <strong> And <em> In Place Of <b> And <i> option
In new HTML and XHTML standards, the <b> and <i> tags are deprecated because they don’t imply
any structural significance to the text they surround. Many screen readers may even completely
ignore the
<b> and <i> tags. Check the Use <strong> And <em> In Place Of <b> And <i> box to use
the more syntactically correct
<strong> and <em> tags in their place.
The option to use
<strong> and <em> tags enables you to create more descriptive HTML code.
Individuals using screen readers benefit, and you make your code more syntactically correct, further
separating style from content.
Warn When Placing Editable Regions Within <p> Or <h1>-<h6> Tags option
Sometimes Dreamweaver adheres a bit too strictly to the rules for my taste—and this preference
addresses one of those times. In Dreamweaver templates, editable regions define areas of the page
that can be altered in the pages derived from templates. Most often, designers wrap editable regions
around block elements such as headings or paragraphs. However, there are occasions when it is
advantageous to make just the content within block tags editable and lock the surrounding tags
themselves. I, for example, apply this technique when I want a template-derived page to always
start with a single
<h1> heading, but know that the heading will alway ...