Yesterday I used the recommendations in this articleto re-configure Dreamweaver.
I was chasing a different problem when I found this article. It is a great article
for Dreamweaver users who desire an easier way to create valid xhtml 1.0 compliant
web pages. I believe specific browser issues can be minimized by making all
pages at least html 4.01 compliant but that is easier said than done. I set
off on this escapade when I tried to fix the templates for this site to be 4.01
compliant. The problems were primarily self-inflicted. Some of the postings
I had cut and pasted from different applications were giving me problems. I
am not sure why I ended up at the alistapart site except that I was trying to
figure out the differences between “strong”and “bold”, “EM”
and “italic”, and the correct use of special characters.

Dr. Robert Schuller. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]