Dreamweaver is a professional visual
editor for creating and managing Websites and pages. With Dreamweaver, it's easy to create
and edit cross-platform, cross-browser pages.
Dreamweaver provides advanced design and
layout tools, as well as making it easy to use Dynamic HTML features such as animated
layers and behaviors without writing a line of code. Browser targeting checks your work
for potential problems on all popular platforms and browsers. Macromedia's Roundtrip HTML
technology imports HTML documents without reformatting the code.
Dreamweaver is fully customizable. You
can create your own objects and commands, modify menus and keyboard shortcuts, and even
write JavaScript code to extend Dreamweaver with new behaviors and property inspectors.
Before you start
Dreamweaver is a great tool for creating
and managing html web sites.
Before you start using Dreamweaver
however you would have completed the following steps:
- Understood your client's requirements.
- Created a layout (and got it approved)
using a graphics software like Fireworks or Photoshop.
- Sliced the necessary gifs/jpgs.
- Have any Flash animation ready
Uploading and Going
Live
After you have developed and tested your
site it is ready to go live. You will need a hosting service. They will provide you with
your server details:
- IP address or www.yoursitename.com
- username
- password
To Upload your files into the remote
hosting Server:
- Fill in these details in Site Manger: Site
> Define Sites > Edit > Remote Info >
- Access = FTP (from drop down menu)
- To connect to your remote server, click
the 'connects to remote host' icon in the Site Manger.
- Once you connect you should see the remote
folder and files on the left window.
- To upload your files click the 'Put Files'
Arrow icon in the site manager.
- After uploading all the files test the
site online using www.yoursitename.com.
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