We’ve looked at creating basic links previously. We are going to review that information, and work on additional information for creating links within Dreamweaver. A Basic Link A hyperlink, more commonly called a link, is a tag that is used to send a user to another page or resource when they click on the link….
One of the goals for formatting is to get information to be easily read and understood. While text in a webpage works well for displaying information, it can be hard to read if there is a lot of text. Lists can break down large complicated blocks of text into smaller, more manageable sections. This is…
Inserting Text Of course, clicking on in a editable area, and typing is probably the easiest way to enter text. By default you enter the text as a paragraph. However, you can select the text and change the type of text to be a heading, list, or other type of text. Importing Text Often you…
The idea behind a template, as we create earlier in class, is to make it easier to create pages. A template should help you: Reduce page development time Increase consistency between pages However, the problem with the old method of using a “template” file, renaming it, and adding new content is that it will be…
There are several ways to layout your website design in Dreamweaver. Hopefully you start with some sketches, either on paper or in a design app. There are design applications that are specific for making website designs, as well as working within existing applications like Photoshop and Illustrator. Some common ways that I’ve seen people layout…
Assuming you have started Dreamweaver, and have a site defined… Now we will look at creating a document, and adding text and images. Creating a new Document Of course one of the things that you will have to do – is to create a brand new web page. Use the Dreamweaver “Start Page” CTRL-N File>New…
Now we need to look at how we can setup and organize our website within Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver gives us the ability to organize websites into a Site. This allows us to maintain and organize our files. To set it up, it ask us to identify several settings. The Local Root Folder Dreamweaver requires you to…
Setting up your workspace As Dreamweaver has changed over the years, different things will change about the user interface. However, most things you will find have stayed the same, and if you have an older version, you don’t have to upgrade. When you run Dreamweaver, you can pick from several different types of layouts for…
