Is Dreamweaver 8's FTP client too slow? Is it driving you nuts? Time outs? Connection breaks? Well, here's the answer....

Use Filezilla instead. I got fed up with DW8's FTP timing out and leaving me with hug installs on one of my servers having missing files. So when I found Friday's upload was incomplete I took a nightly build of my favourite CMS on Monday morning, grabbed all the files in that nightly build folder and added them to the QUEUE, then in TRANSFER options, FILE OVERWRITE SETTINGS I ticked OVERWRITE IF NEWER and then in QUEUE hit PROCESS QUEUE.

Lightning fast and accurate. Job done.

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I just found out something really cool in DreamWeaver 8's Find & Replace, here's the crack...

I had a compressed & optimised CSS file, with no line breaks. Thing is that I needed a version WITH line breaks so that it can be worked on a bit easier THEN optimised and compressed.

Trouble is that DreamWeaver doesn't appear to have the option I wanted... I wanted to replace every brace character } with a brace } and a new line/ carriage return/ line feed. I checked DreamWeaver's Help and it didn't enlighten me.

So I just went ahead and did what I thought might work, taking the CRLF knowledge from PHP into DreamWeaver, making sure, because this was a test, to only apply the Find & Replace to the current document ;)

Find: }

Replace: }\n

Replace All

It worked!

Obviously if your CSS is fully compressed you can give every single selector a line break with find & replace on opening braces { and replace with {\n and replace every semicolon ; with ;\n

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