(Tutorial) Using Dreamweaver

The objective of this exercise is to familiarize you with the Macromedia Dreamweaver package. Your goal is to learn as much about the package as you can. This exercise is hands-on, meaning that it is designed such that you complete a series of steps so as to learn how to create a Web page and Web site with Dreamweaver. Each of the hands-on steps that you will complete appear as numbered steps.

To help you with this goal, you will create a Web page for Virtual Tide Realty (a simulated company). Your goal, however, is to learn Dreamweaver. It is not to create an absolute replica of the sample Web page and Web site. Feel free to experiment with colors, fonts and sizes while you are learning Dreamweaver. Be sure to periodically save your work. You must save your work before you can create certain types of links, such as anchor links. Save all of your Web pages to the same folder on the A: drive on your computer. In addition, use file names that adhere to the following rules:

• File names are case sensitive. When you upload the Web site files to the Web server, the Web server interprets lower-case and upper-case characters as different characters. We suggest that you use lower case file names for all of the files that you create.
• File names must begin with a letter.
• File names cannot contain spaces. (File names with spaces work well with Windows, but pose difficulty on UNIX servers). The Web server that you will be using is a UNIX server.

To complete this hands-on exercise, you will need the following files.

• bar.gif: An image file used for the dividers on the page.
• kauai.html: A predefined Web page that you will add as a link from the home page.
• properties.doc: A Microsoft Word document that contains text that you will insert into the home page that you will create in this exercise.
• Kauaimap: An image of kauai for the image map we will make.
• To get the image theme, go to Tropical Nights

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