Starting with Dreamweaver

Lesson 1

Dreamweaver is the pretty way of designing a website. It is HTML for Dummies. Lesson 1 is a basic rundown of all of the tasks that Dreamweaver is capable of, and even says how to do some of them. It goes through a lot of the lecture that we had on the basics of the world wide web. For instance, how Dreamweaver is used to build an HTML code, an ISP enables you to connect to the internet to receive these  HTML codes to your IP address through a DNS server.

It gives the basic structure of an HTML document, including adding a header, body, and images. It takes a look at fonts and colors, and creating and saving documents. I don't necessarily agree, however, on the section about how anyone can use the program. It's easy to navigate, but I think that too many people start using Dreamweaver without actually knowing how the code that is generated actually works.

Lesson 2

Using the Site Setup dialog box can help define a websites name, local root folder, remote folder, and advanced settings. Pages are then linked to the root folder, which keeps them navigable and keeps them from getting lost. The first box that a user is encountered with after creating a document is deciding the layout of the pages (fixed, liquid, etc...). Then you can decide the doctype and finally the document is created.

The Page Properties box allows a user to decide the page font, color, and margins. Basically, the appearance of the page (can either be done in CSS or HTML). The views can be easily changed from looking at the design, to the code, to both in the upper, left-hand corner of the program (I personally prefer the split view).