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DREAMWEAVER is a great tool for creating and managing intenet web sites. However before you start, please consider the following pre-steps for site creation.

Planning the site including:

• Defining the site’s strategies or goals
• Targeting an audience
• Determining your site’s data requirements
• Conceptualise site navigation scheme and controls

Setting up the development environment including:

• Selecting web servers
• Defining a site with Dreamweaver
• Defining data sources

Planning page design and layout including:

• Mocking up pages and interfaces with a drawing tool such as Fireworks
• Laying out the pages in html with Dreamweaver

Creating content assets including:

• Video
• Images and so on with Fireworks and Flash

Building application assets including:

• Creating dynamic pages
• Rich Internet applications with Dreamweaver and Flash

Assembling, testing and deploying your site including:

• Formatting text
• Compiling assets
• Ensuring you have met Assessability requirements
• Testing your code
• Publishing your site to server with Dreamweaver

Maintaining and updating your site including:

• Keeping content fresh and current with Dreamweaver and Contribute

Now the Practical Preparation

Follow these steps to create a site using Macromedia DREAMWEAVER. For easy creation of interactive lessons using preprepared templates click here and click Creating Interactive Lessons.

1. Create site folder (rename with a short name, lowercase, no spaces). This will be your Local Root Folder that contains your entire site.
2. Open your site folder and create a new folder called images. Make sure images that you have previously created or collected are moved into this folder.
3. In your site folder, create a new folder called assets. Make sure any documents you wish to use are stored inside this folder.
4. Start Dreamweaver Program

Look at the interface.

5. From Site, choose Manage Sites

Click New and select Site.

Give Site Name (short name, lowercase, no spaces, using same as site folder)

Browse for your Local Root Folder and images folder Save the new page (currently untitled document) as - index.htm

6. If you are creating many pages and want to use the same style for each, save this page as a site template.
7. Layout your page using tables.
8. Insert images - saves to assets folder, right click inserted image and select Optimise in Fireworks…, and resize image and choose suitable resolution. Update and then resize image properties in Dreamweaver.
9. Add text (you may copy and paste from Word etc).
10. Save (control S) and preview in browser – F12
11. Decide on where to place links to other pages using images or text.
12. Create additional pages with same design as home page. Names must be in lower case and as short as possible, with no spaces.
13. Continually save and view in browser.