Chapter 17. Snippets and Libraries
You've finished the design for your company's new Web site. It looks great and
your boss is ecstatic. But you've only just begun. There are hundreds of pages
to build before you launch. And once the site's online, you'll need to make
endless updates to keep it fresh and inviting.
This is where Dreamweaver's Snippet and Library features come in, streamlining the
sometimes tedious work of building and updating Web pages.
As you build more and more Web pages (and more and more Web sites), you may
find yourself creating the same Web page elements over and over again. Many pages
of a site may share certain common elements that are always the same: a copyright
notice, a navigation bar, or a logo, for example. And you may find yourself frequently
using more complex items, such as a pull-down menu listing the twelve months of
the year, or a particular table design you use for photos and their captions.
Recreating the same page elements time after time is tiresome and梩hanks to Dreamweaver?
unnecessary. Dreamweaver provides two subtly different tools for reusing
common page elements: Snippets and Library items.
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