Using Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver has 2 screens that do different things

•

The Document window

•

where you create your WebPages

•

The Site window

•

where you manage your website resources, layout and files

Slide 1

Document toolbar and menus toolbar

The Document window

Insert bar Property inspector Time indicator: gives an approximation of download time of the page

Slide 2

The Site window

The Site panel view lets you see your entire site and all its resources It has several ways of looking at your site 1.

as a ‘Site Map’ – a hierarchy map.

2. as lists of files,

• •

It allows you to: open files, to rename files, to add new folders or files to a site, or to refresh the view of a site after changes have been made. determine which files have been updated since the last time they were transferred Slide 3

Create the Files

• Go to the T drive > RS open your tutor groups folder • Create a new folder Using your initials and surname • In this folder create another folder called “images” • These are the folders you will save all website work

Slide 4

Set up the folder for your site – choose the Site window

Select Site and

New Site

1.

2.

Give your site a name 3.

Select

No

Click Next Click Next

Slide 5

Finishing the setting up your website files

4.

Click Next 5.

Select None Click on the folder and

Select

your Form Group’s File on the T drive.

Select the folder you just created.

Click Next 6.

Click Done

Slide 6

Start creating a webpage – return to the untitled document screen Slide 7

Use the

Insert Bar table icon

to insert a base table for the page layout.

Cell padding adjusts the space between the edge of the cell and the text.

Select the required numbers of Rows and Columns.

Select the width of the table: if this is not entered, the table will adjust according to the items in the cells and the window size of the browser.

Border sets the width of the boarder – if you choose “0” then it will not show in the final webpage Cell spacing adjusts the width of the space between the cells.

Slide 8

This base table is indicated by

dotted lines.

This table will

not display

in the webpage This example has 2 rows and 3 columns.

Each cell is used to contain an object: text, image, menu, etc.

This base table indicated by

double lines because a boarder width of 1 was selected.

This table

will display

in the final webpage. The property inspector bar shows the properties of a selected item and is used to bar to change it’s format

Slide 9

1. Enter main title.

2. Use drop down

Format

menu to on the Property Inspector bar select

Heading 1

.

4. Centre the text if you wish.

Add further text as required in relevant cells.

Don’t format

the text at this stage.

Slide 10

Putting in Links and Images Insert an image

by clicking the image button on the insert bar and find the file on the T drive in the resources folder Enter the text for the

hyper links

Pressing

Return

 at the end of a line produces a new paragraph.

If the

image

is outside your website files you will be asked to save it - save it in your

image file Slide 11

Save your new home page – keep the file names in lowercase and simple using files names that that are short and give some idea what the page is about. They should all end in h Your first page is the

home page

“

index

” and you must

all

do this.

it is a convention to called it the The sub pages should have file names that indicate what they are.

When you save you will save into the file you created in the previous lessons.

You will be asked to save images you inserted into your webpage into this file as well. You should create an images file to store them which will help organise your site Create the the other WebPages for your site ready to put the hyper links in to link up your pages To create a new page click on

File

and select

New

document to open a new web

Slide 12

Now you have created the web pages you can link them to your home page 1. Highlight required text.

2. Either:

a) Click in the Link box

on the properties inspector bar and type the required URL (if you can remember it) and it must be exactly right including the extension

b) Or easier

- click on the folder and find the file select it and click OK

Slide 13

Click in the part of the table you want to change.

Use the Properties inspector to change what you want E.g. here the background colour has been changed Click on the edge of the table and a heavy black line appears and the property inspector changes Change the table width so it will display across the whole screen when in a browser by selecting 100 %

Slide 14

Apply your formatting by using style sheets.

Make sure these are in users’ folders before you start.

1. Use

View

,

HTML

to view the HTML coding.

2. Add the reference to the style sheet in the head section.

3. Save and preview.

4. Edit the style sheet as appropriate.

Slide 15

Style sheet one

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Style sheet two

Slide 17

Style sheet three

Slide 18

Style sheet four

Slide 19