Dreamweaver Basics

In this section you will learn how to:

1. Set up a Web site

2. Create a home page

Dreamweaver will open and look like this

When start page appears, click Don’t show again checkbox

When the alert window appears, check the Don’t show me this message again checkbox, then click the OK button.

In the Files pane, click Manage Sites in

the Files list.

When the Manage Sites window appears, click

on the New button.

When the menu appears click Site

When the Site Definition appears, type the

name of your site in the first text box and then

click the Next button

When the second window appears check the No I don’t want to use server technology radio

button, then click the Next button

When the next screen appears leave the Edit local copies on my machine radio button

checked. Then click Next button.

When the next screen appears, click FTP in the How do you connect to your remote server?

list.

In the What is your hostname or FTP address of your Web server? box type the real address of your Web

server. Then click the Next button.

When the next screen appears, leave No do not enable check in and check out radio button checked. Then

click Next button.

When the Summary screen appears, click the Done button

Create a Home Page

On the Menu Bar, click File, then New

When the New Document window appears,

click HTML in the Basic Page column

A blank page should open

In the blank page type: WebQuest

Then type index.html in File name. Click Save

Index.html should now appear in File pane.

Make sure Local view

is selected

Right-click in blank space on the page. When the Menu appears click

Page Properties

In the Category list, click Title/Encoding.When Title/Encoding screen appears, type A Home

Page about Dog