How to Create a Website in Dreamweaver
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This book details the construction of a website from scratch. You can build the same one by following along or develop your own website idea while following the same steps.
But why build a website in Dreamweaver? Why not use one of the open source architectures that exist today such as Wordpress and Joomla? That's easy. For total control over your content, the code and how it is published. Adobe Dreamweaver is a blessing to the would-be website creator in more ways than one.
Too many websites get hacked now-a-days and if that happens to your site, do you know how to fix it?
Dreamweaver enables you to not only build a website but also to store it off-line on your computer. If your website did get hacked all you have to do is re-upload it. No finding the malware and fixing it which could take days to find little alone fix.
Dreamweaver has so many features and shortcuts that make coding much easier. It's my hope that by purchasing this book you realise your dream of building your own website and the satisfaction that comes from that.
Robert Lasky-Davison
Robert is an author of "How To Books". He is very meticulous when it comes to recording the steps required to get tasks done.He lives in Australia and is also passionate about giving back to the community.He already donates many hours of his time each year as a volunteer in the palliative care field and is very passionate about doing so.Robert is also the author of a great book on "Relationships" which is designed to help people establish deeper and more fulfilling relationships that stand the test of time. Look for "Questions For Life - The Dating Book for Men and Women"Robert hopes you find anything that he publishes useful. If so he would love to hear how it has helped you.Feel free to email Robert at contact@quizms.com or leave him a review at your favourite e-book retailer.
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How to Create a Website in Dreamweaver - Robert Lasky-Davison
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Create design layout for your website
2. Setup your website in Dreamweaver
3. Design the page structure for your main.html file
4. How to view your website in Dreamweaver
5. Add test content to HTML
6. Create page presentation – CSS
7. Finalise the css formats
8. Formatting elements
9. Formatting with a CSS style file
10.Add pictures to the front page
11.Positioning Adjustments
12.Additional page designs
13.Create templates for your website
14.Linking all the pages together
15.Linking Rules
16.Creating a links page
17.Building the About
page
18.Create pages for dropdown menus
19.Setup the navigation menu dropdowns
20.Create a gallery template file & gallery.css file
21.Create a video page
22.Setting up a contact form
23.Setup CSS styling for the form
24.Data validation for our contact form
25.Some final tidy up work
26.Adding SEO – get your site indexed by the Search Engines
27.Page heading tags & SEO
28.The Alt tag & SEO
29.The title attributes & SEO
30.Publish your website
31.Other things you can do with a website
32.Sitemaps & search engine indexing
33.Conclusion
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Introduction
Let’s get straight to the point. Why do I use Dreamweaver and not some other platform like WordPress or Joomla to build my sites? Afterall, WordPress alone apparently powers about 30% or so of the world’s websites. Well the answer is easy. For me it is an issue of control. Control over my content and more importantly control over the code.
When I first decided to build a website, I did so using WordPress, which is built on open source architecture where anyone can use and modify the WordPress software. It was relatively easy to use.
The problem I had was when some of my websites got hacked, I had no knowledge of where the hack was and how to fix it. This meant that months of hard work in selecting templates (which were created by multiple different authors) and content went up in smoke. Because I had not written the code, little alone understood how to get to most of it I was lost. Not even my Host company was prepared to assist. The only thing they wanted from me was to correct the problem. So, I was left with no choice but to delete all the website content from the server and start again.
With Dreamweaver I know the code because I wrote it. I have a copy of all my html, css, javascript and image files on my own machine. Once built it takes a few minutes to upload to my Hosts servers. If I make an update or alter some of the content, I can also push it up to the same servers in less than a minute for the whole world to see.
The best thing is that if my site did get hacked, I can simply upload the site again in no time without searching for and fixing any malware. I believe that because WordPress powers about 30% of the worlds websites that hackers see it as a challenge to do damage to the websites associated with it. If it happens to you, you will know the frustration that I have felt at becoming the victim of such behaviour, as clever as they are.
With that in mind you now understand why I believe a program like Adobe Dreamweaver is a blessing to the would-be website creator. This guide does not explain all the ins and outs of Dreamweaver, but I hope it has enough information to enable you to build a website and more importantly arm you with enough tools and knowledge to be able to go out there and learn more in an easier manner.
So, let’s get started with the guidelines that I have