of reports, and even customize them, to identify problems with external links, redundant and empty tags, untitled documents, and missing Alt text. You can easily
unfixed. Before Dreamweaver added this great new feature, finding these kinds of mistakes was a tedious and time-consuming task. Now you can run a report that identifies these errors for you and use Dreamweaver to fix mistakes across your entire site automatically. Figure 3-4: Use the Browse button in the Properties inspector to fix a broken link by identifying the correct filename. Chapter 3: Planning and Maintaining a Web Site 85 Follow these steps to produce a Site Report of your entire Web site: 1. Select the site name from the drop-down list at the top of the Files panel and choose the site you want to work on from the list. See Chapter 2 for step-by-step instructions for defining your site if you havent done so already. 2. Make sure all your open documents are saved by choosing File? Save All. 3. From the Site menu, choose Site?Reports. The Reports dialog box appears (see Figure 3-5). 4. From the Report On drop-down list, choose Entire Current Local Site. You can also choose to check only a single page by opening the page in Dreamweaver and then choosing Current Document from the Report On drop-down list. You can also run a report on selected files or on a particular folder. If you choose Selected Files, you must have already selected the pages you want to check in the Files panel. 5. Select the type of report you want by putting check marks next to the report names in the Select Reports section. Table 3-1 describes the kind of report you get with each option. You can select as many reports as you want. The Workflow options in the Select Reports section are available only if you already enabled Check In/Out in the Remote Info section of the Site Definition dialog box and selected Maintain Design Notes in the Design Notes section of the Site Definition dialog boxs Advanced tab. You can read more about the Site Definition dialog box in Chapter 2 and more about Design Notes and the Check in/Check Out feature in Chapter 4. Figure 3-5: You can select any or all the options in the Reports dialog box to run simultaneously, and you can run reports on a single page or on your
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