Introducing Dreamweaver 8 Tutor 1 |
Dreamweaver 8 is a easy to use software that allows you to create professional web Pages. The design edition features of Dreamweaver 8 allow you to quickly add objects and functionality to your pages, without having to program the HTML code manually. It's possible to create tables, edit frames, work with layers, insert JavaScript behaviors, etc., in a very simple and visual way. In addition, it includes a complete FTP client software, allowing among other things to work with visual maps of the Web sites, and updating the Web site in the server without leaving the program. In order to follow this course you can download the trial version of Dreamweaver from the Macromedia's Page, this version expires after 30 days, but you can surely at some stage bring yourself to buy the full version of this wonderful program. |
In this point we will see the main features the new version of Dreamweaver includes: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() Any text editor allows you to create web Pages. It's only necessary to create documents with HTML or HTM extensions, there you'll have to include the HTML code that you want. Even the Notepad can be used to do it. Creating Web Pages with a text editor (and thus adding all the HTML code manually) requires more effort than using a graphical editor. If you don't use a graphical editor is much more difficult to insert each one of the elements of the Page, and at the same time it is more complicated to create a professional appearance for the Page. Nowadays a wide range of web Page editors exists. One of the most commonly used, and emphasized by its simplicity and the numerous features that it includes, is Macromedia Dreamweaver. Tutor 2 |
In addition to Dreamweaver, another series of good Web Pages Editors exists, such as Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Pagemill, Adobe GoLive, NetObjects Fusion, CutePage, HotDog Proffesional, Netscape Composer and Arachnophilia, some of which have the advantage of being free. |
In order to be able to upload a web Page to the Internet, it's necessary to hire a web hosting company to make your web site available to others on the internet 24 hours a day. The price to have your own space on their servers will depend on the company, the space on disk you need, the volume of transference and many other options that you can ask for. There are companies that offer this service for free, but with certain limitations: justa a few disk space, slowness and a name for our Page preceded by their own etc... It's also necessary to consider that these companies must generate income in some way it is the reason why they are dedicated to sell advertising spaces within your Pages, ads that we'll not be able to avoid including in our web Pages. For these reasons, it is not recommended to use a free hosting for a bussiness Page, although it is acceptable for a personal one. When we are going to hire a web hosting service it is necessary to also contract a domain, a task which usually is in charge of the hosting company. To register a domain consists of registering a name for our Page. This name cannot be repeated in Internet, has to be unique, as happens with the names of the companies. It's possible to register the same name with different extensions, like for example, .net, .org, .biz or .com. In the case of free hosting it isn't necessary to register a domain, since our Page will not be more than a file within the one of the hired company. At the time of hiring a web hosting service it is also necessary to consider the number of email accounts and if we are going to need a database, although this last one will only be useful for advanced users. Let's see the two basic ways to start Dreamweaver 8. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
Dreamweaver includes the possibility to save multiple documents, without having to do it one by one. In order to save all you can follow anyone of the following actions: ![]() ![]() ![]() When we have several open documents it's easy to forget all the modifications done in each one of them. You must take care when using the Save all option, since sometimes it's possible not to wish to keep the changes in all modified documents. For that reason it is advisable that at least you don't use this option in the beginning, until you have become more experienced in handling the program. Tutor 3 So now that you have an idea of how Dreamweaver works, we're going to create a simple web Page, with several text styles, an image, and a link to another Page. To create this single Page will take you a few minutes, and you will know how to work with the basic elements with which most Web Pages are made. If you have never made a Web Page, this is the moment to discover how easy it is.
Tutor 4 Now we're going to change the format of the text. For this you need to visualize the properties inspector, normally found in the inferior part of the window, and has the following aspect: ![]()
![]() You can name the document as you wish, but consider that the extension has to be htm or html. For example, you can call it "test1.htm". After all these steps, you can see the Page with the new Format by pressing the F12 key. |
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