Making and Posting a Webpage
Dreamweaver
1. Open These Toolboxes
- Files>Site Where you'll monitor your site files
- Header Bar Has the title of your page, and the code view options.
- Insert>Common How you'll get "stuff" onto your page
- Properties Formatting window (font, indents, linkages...)
3. Make A Webpage
Type a word onto your page. Find the icon on the header bar that will allow you to see the WYSWYG and the code. Look at the code. Hit return, type some more. Look at the code. As you learn how to use Dreamweaver, keep your eye on the code. When troubleshooting a buggy webpage, it will provide invaluable clues to the problem.
Save your document as index.html to your local root folder.
Download an image from here, and save it in your local root folder.
In the insert box, find and press the picture of the tree. This icon allows you to navigate to your web ready image and insert it into your document.
Type some more text and practice formatting it using options in the properties box.
Under the modify menu, select page properties and experiment with background colors, text colors, link colors, visited link colors, and active link colors
Save your document again. Check out your Site files.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Software
4. Upload Your Site using SFTP (Mac) or SSH Secure Shell (IBM)