Development Tools in HomeSite
This section gives a brief description of the major Web development tools. You can try these features on the Tools menu to get a sense of what HomeSite has to offer:
- Tag Chooser -- A repository of HTML, CFML, HDML, VTML, and Custom tags. The embedded help window provides syntax and usage information for the selected tag.
- Spell Check -- Use the integrated spell checker or optionally use the Microsoft Word spell checker if it is installed.
- Code Validator -- Check the syntax of the current tag or an entire document. Open the Options > Settings dialog (F8) and click the Validation tab to enable validation and to specify CFML and HTML versions.
- Document Weight -- Presents a list of the current document's dependencies (links to Web resources) calculates approximate download times for common modem types.
- Site View -- Displays a tree view or graph view of the current document.
- Verify Links -- Tests the links in the current document and returns the Web server error message for unsuccessful links.
Search
The Search menu provides some powerful features for editing files:
- Find and Replace -- Works in the current document.
- Extended Find and Replace -- Works across open documents or can recursively search folders. Support for regular expressions enables sophisticated search criteria.
- Replace Special Characters -- Change ASCII extended characters to equivalent HTML and back. To set auto-conversion of extended characters, open the Options > Settings > Files tab.
- Replace Double-Spacing with Single-Spacing -- Quickly reformat pages.
See Using Search and Replace for more information.
Browsers
You can preview your code in a number of ways:
- If Internet Explorer is detected during the HomeSite installation, you are prompted to use it as the internal browser. Open the Options > Settings > Browse tab to add it later and to set Web server mappings for processing pages.
- The setup program also auto-detects a number of common browsers if they are installed on your system. Click Options > Configure Internal Browsers to review and edit the list.
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