This is for static brochure website.
I was thinking of turning off Dreamweaver’s code writing, and doing it myself, because of all the unnecessary code DW writes.
Ironically enough, I do most of my work in Dreamweaver in "code view" not design view. No matter what you’re doing, it’s always good to have a look at the code now and again.
I’ve noticed that even when Dreamweaver is SUPPOSED to be in XML-compliant code, I still sometimes see it trying to insert a <br> instead of a <br /> when I press SHIFT-Enter in Design View.
Personally I don’t like the Split option where you get both views at once. It just makes the screen too cluttered. Besides it’s so easy to just press Ctrl ` (on Windows/PC versions) to easily switch back and forth from one view to another… in fact, that’s exactly what I do when I want a quick peek at what the code I’m writing "looks like" without having to go to view it in an external web browser.