Dreamweaver

Associate Design Notes with files

You can create a Design Notes file for each document or template in your site. You can also create Design Notes for applets, ActiveX controls, images, Flash content, Shockwave objects, and image fields in your documents.

Note: If you add Design Notes to a template file, documents you create with the template do not inherit the Design Notes.
  1. Do one of the following:

    • Open the file in the Document window and select File > Design Notes.

    • In the Files panel, right-click (Windows) or Control‑click (Macintosh) the file, and select Design Notes.

      Note: If the file resides in a remote site, you must first check out or get the file, and then select it in the local folder.
  2. In the Basic Info tab, select a status for the document from the Status menu.
  3. Click the date icon (above the Notes box) to insert the current local date in your notes.
  4. Type comments in the Notes box.
  5. Select Show When File Is Opened to make the Design Notes file appear every time the file is opened.
  6. In the All Info tab, click the Plus (+) button to add a new key-value pair; select a pair and click the Minus (–) button to remove it.

    For example, you might name a key Author (in the Name box) and define the value as Heidi (in the Value box).

  7. Click OK to save the notes.

    Dreamweaver saves your notes to a folder called _notes, in the same location as the current file. The filename is the document’s filename, plus the extension .mno. For example, if the filename is index.html, the associated Design Notes file is named index.html.mno.