Introduction to Dreamweaver

1. BON SECOURS COLLEGE FOR
WOMEN,THANJAVUR
DEPARTMENT
OF
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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Dr.G.AMBIKA
MCA.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,
Assistant professor,
Department of Information Technology,
Bon secours college for women,
Thanjavur.

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What is a Web site?
A web site is:
a presentation tool;
a way to communicate;
a learning tool;
a teaching tool;
a marketing important
tool;

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Step 1
Think!
Before you do anything else, you need to spend
time thinking about the 4w’s.
What is the purpose of the web page/site?
Who is your target audience?
What will bring your audience back?
Where will your audience be using the site?

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Step 2:Follow The Rules
 To creat a we site you must follow theses rules:
 Rule 1: YOU are NOT the USER.
• What you understand is not what a user will understand; ask the users to
design the site the way they want.
 Rule 2: USERS are NOT PROFESIONALS
• Users will not think carefully about the new added features in the Web site
without your directions.
 Rule 3: Give the common user a little control
• Allow the user some choices and the ability to control color and themes on
their accounts.

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Step 3
 Go on a Roundup.
Locate images, files, animations, etc. that you might use
and place them in your www directory. It is important
that all files be in the same folder.
If you are going to work at home or some place other than
the university computer lab, create a www directory on the
hard drive, USB drive or whatever.

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Step 4
Open Website designing tools like
Dreamweaver ,
FrontPage,SeaMonkey,…and start designing
your web pages.
Save your work often!!!!!!!!
Typically we name the home page in a web site
“index.html”

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Some Things to Remember
 You do not have the layout control in a web editor that you do
in Word or PowerPoint.
 Therefore, the web designers used tables to control the layout
out of their pages. If you set the borders of the table to 0 width,
you can't see the outline of the tables in the web browser.
You will get very frustrated if you
try to design a web page without
tables. Your graphics will not appear
where you want them.

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Note:
Naming Web Files:
 Use all lower case (it will be easier to communicate the URL
to others if it is all lower case).
 DO NOT have spaces in file names (some old browsers cannot
handle spaces. You should rename graphic files if they have
spaces)
 Try to keep file names as short as possible (this prevents errors
in typing in URLs)

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Types of Web Pages
Any web site composed from a set of web pages:
Some of those pages are static (abstract) pages while other pages are dynamics
(proactive) pages.
A dynamic page that will
take user name and
password and check it to
allow login.
A static page with no
interaction that user will
only read and close if.

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Web Development Languages & Tools
1. HTML/DHTML/XHTML
2. Java
3. Web Design Tools e.g. Frontpage, Dreamweaver.
3. Scripting Languages e.g. VBScript, Javascript
4. Cascading Style Sheets
5. XML
6. …more!!!

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Let’s go to build a website
Let’s go to use Microsoft FrontPage.
And learn how to build powerful website
A good advice “Don’t reinvent the wheel “
•Use pre-designed templates.
• Download lovely icons, backgrounds and images from the internet.
• Use pre-programmed scripts.