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Snippets aren't as smart as other Dreamweaver features.
Dreamweaver's usually good about warning you before you
make a mistake, but it doesn't make a peep if you're adding
a snippet incorrectly.
For instance, when you use one of the program's form snippets
to add, say, a text field to a page, Dreamweaver doesn't
check to see if you're really putting the snippet into a form.
Dreamweaver doesn't let you know if the required <form>
tag is missing, and certainly won't add it itself. Furthermore,
if you're working in Code view, Dreamweaver lets you add
snippets to the <head> or even outside the <html> tags altogether,
which is useful when creating dynamic Web pages
that include server-side programming code, but just creates
messy and invalid HTML on normal Web pages.
Furthermore, snippets don't take advantage of Dreamweaver's
site management features to keep track of links or paths
to images. Suppose you create a snippet that includes an
image. If you insert that snippet into another page, the image
may not show up correctly. If you create a snippet that
includes a link from one page to another on your site, that
link is also unlikely to work in another page.
So it's best to create snippets without images or links-but
there are workarounds. For instance, you can create snippets
with fake links梪se nothing but the # symbol for the
link, for example梐nd update the link after you insert the
snippet into a page. For images, you can use Dreamweaver's
Image Placeholder object to simulate a graphic in a snippet
(choose Insert Image ObjectsImage Placeholder). After
adding the snippet to the page, update the placeholder with
your real image file.
If you want to create reusable content that can keep track
of links and images, see Dreamweaver's Library feature,
described in Section 17.5.
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