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| Saving a Web Page in Dreamweaver: |
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After editing the semester and year to a format you like, let's save the document. It is always a good idea to save your document on a regular basis while you are working on it.
In the File menu, select Save. A dialog bog box like the one below will appear. First you will need to find the folder you have created to for the web project you are working on. If you followed the suggestions at the beginning of this tutorial, you probably have a folder called WebPages and then a subfolder for each particular course you are working on. Make sure the folder for the class you are working on appears in the drop-down box next to the type Save in:.
Naming web pages:
There are three important thing to know when naming web pages:
- Do not use spaces or special characters in page names:
When naming a web page, use only the letters A-Z or a-z, the numbers 0-9, and an underscore ( _ ). Do not use diacritics or any other characters. Your computer may not care if you use upper- or lowercase letters, but the computer you will put your "official" web pages on will care. It is a good idea to write web page names in all lowercase.
- Always include a file extension in your web page name:
Internet browsers like Netscape and Internet Explorer only know what kind of file it is looking at because of the three- or four letter file extension at the end of your web page name. The extension is always preceded by a period ( . ). Web page file names will end in .html or .htm (it doesn't matter which extension you use, but be consistent with all of your web pages. Image files and other file types will have different file extensions. (Image files will have either .gif or .jpg, which will be explained later.)
- Index.html or index.htm are special file names:
When you name a page index.html or index.htm, it will be the first page that appears when you type in the directory but don't include a file name. (So, for instance, typing http://cts.rice.edu/ is the same as typing http://cts.rice.edu/index.html.) Sometimes you can use other file names like home.html, home.htm, default.html or default.htm, but on the main Rice web servers like Owlnet and RUF, you should always use index.html or index.htm.Save the document you are working on as index.html or index.htm in the folder you created for your class web pages.
| Working with Text on Your Web Page: |
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To get familiar working with text in Dreamweaver, try creating a page that looks similar to this sample course web page. Do not worry about about making any of the text blue (that indicates that the text is a link and we will work on that in just a bit).
Remember to Save your file often!
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