Accessing Dreamweaver
From the desktop:
go to the Start button
go to programs
select Dreamweaver
From Dreamweaver to the Net
Here are the basic steps to follow every time you want to add content to your
site.
Once in Dreamweaver:
1. If the site files window isn't visible you can access it by going to the
"windows" menu and clicking on "site files."
2. On the local folder side of the site files window, select (click) on the
file you want to edit. One click will highlight the file, two clicks will bring
the file up in a Dreamweaver window. If you want to create a new page, Dreamweaver
usually launches a new blank page at startup. If it's not there, you can always
start a new page by selecting "new" from the "file" menu.
If a new page, remember to go to the "modify" menu and select "page
properties" to give the new page a title and background color.
3. Begin adding content!!
4. Save early, save often. If a new page, the name you give to your file the
first time you save it, will become part of the website address for that page.
Do not put spaces into the file name.
Ex. Correct "blog2.html"
Incorrect "blog 2.html"
.doc will not work!
Always, always, always, save your work before moving on to step 5.
5. Make sure that the web page that you've been working on is highlighted in
the local folder menu of the site files window.
6. Click on the blue arrow icon (put). This puts the new content onto the Web.
The first put in any Dreamweaver session will require you to enter your password.
Subsequent puts will skip that step. Click OK if it asks about dependent files.
7. Switch over to the Net and check out the page you just put to the Net. See
if the changes are visible. You should also check new links to see if they work.
A hint: If you already had your Internet site open, refresh the page to see
the changes.
That's it!
From Word to Dreamweaver
When adding content, you have several options. One is to write content in your index file already in Dreamweaver, then put changes to the Net.
Another is to write content in Microsoft Word and then copy and paste to your
Dreamweaver index file, and then put changes to the Net.
A third option is to create the content in Microsoft Word and turn it into
a new Dreamweaver page that can be put to the Net. The procedure is as follows:
1. Create the content in Microsoft Word.
2. When saving the content, chose "save as web page" from the File menu
(this will result in an .htm file instead of a .doc file). Make sure the document
is saved to the Dreamweaver folder you created to store your content for this class.
3. Go into Dreamweaver and open the new page by selecting it from your local
folders side of the site files window.
4. Check the page to see if the formatting looks okay. If so, save it and put
it to the Net (see the instructions under "From Dreamweaver to the Net").
Note: you will want to create a link from your index page to the new content (and vice versa). Otherwise, the new content will be orphaned (no
one will know how to find it).
Your "define site" information
Local info:
Site name - the name you gave your site (the name of the folder in "My Documents")
http address - http://www.bethel.edu/~username/
(don't put your index info here as part of the http address, stop after the ~username)
Remote info:
Server access - ftp
FTP host - ftp.bethel.edu
Host directory - public_html/
login - username
password - leave this space blank