08 March 2008

Prevent Dreamweaver Downloading Content from Internet

Adobe Dreamweaver has many advantages to make editing and designing your website much easier. One of them is live-preview support. With this feature, if you are connected to internet and you are linking images or objects in your webpage from the internet, it will automatically preview them when you are in design mode. However, it will be problematic if you have a slow internet connection, or if you are editing a page which has many images / objects linked from the Internet (especially if your internet connection is limited by quota).

The solution is simple, you just need to prevent Dreamweaver connect to the Internet automatically. You can do it by blocking Dreamweaver from your firewall, but there is an easy way to do that. Simply you need to go to
View > uncheck Display External Files. You're done! Now you can edit a page with full image links much faster (although you'll get no image preview in the design mode though).


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