How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS4

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How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver

CS4 (Dreamweaver Tutorial)Build and Design Your Website with Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial: How to Create aWebsite with Dreamweaver CS4by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com

For those who don't know, Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 4 (CS4), is a well-knowncommercial web editor that enables you to design, build and manage complex websites. Theeditor is a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) web editor, which means that you cancreate your web page visually and whatever you see on the screen while designing is what youwill get when your site is loaded in a normal web browser.

As far as WYSIWYG web editors go, Dreamweaver does a very good job of generatingstandards-compliant code for web pages. This means that your site will not break in newerversions of web browsers. For the technically inclined, the HTML and CSS code that it createsfor your website will validate correctly.

Overall Goals of this Tutorial Series

By the end of this tutorial series, you will have created a complete website with multiple pages,including a home page, a feedback form, an About Us page, and a Site Map. Your pages willcontain a sophisticated navigation menu bar, images, multiple columns, a form, links to otherpages within your site, links to other sites, text in different font sizes, etc. In other words, youwill have a fully functional website,.

More importantly, you will have learned how to use Dreamweaver to set up, design and publishyour site. You will thus be able to update your site and design new sites any time you want.

Goal of this ChapterIn this chapter, you will learn to create a basic two-column web page and publish it so that it canbe accessed on the Internet. By the end of this chapter, you will be viewing this page on the

Internet with your web browser.

Note that this is a hands-on tutorial. To benefit from it, in fact, to even understand it, you need tofollow the steps as I describe them. The practical nature of this guide makes it difficult to followor understand if you're not doing the things mentioned.

What You Will Need
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Creating a website involves far more than just designing the visual appearance of the web pageitself. If you are not familiar with all the aspects of website creation, I recommend that you take alook at How to Start / Make a Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide found athttp://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/startwebsite.shtml

At the very least, you will need the following:

Dreamweaver

Since this is a Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial, it goes without saying that you will need theeditor itself.

Note that this tutorial assumes that you are using Dreamweaver CS 4. Dreamweaver CS5users should read the Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial and Dreamweaver CS3 users theDreamweaver CS3 Tutorial. While CS3, CS4 and CS5 have some similarities, there arestill enough differences between them that it will be much easier to just use the tutorialspecifically written for the version that you have.

Those using earlier versions of Dreamweaver, like Dreamweaver 8, will need to upgradeto the current version to use this tutorial. The earlier versions are missing key features

that will prevent you from completing any of the CS3, CS4 or CS5 tutorials.

A Web Hosting Account

You will also need a web host for your site. For those new to web development, a webhost is (loosely speaking) a company which has computers that are permanentlyconnected to the Internet. After you have designed your web pages, you will need totransfer them to your web host's computer (called a web server), so that the rest of theworld can read them. There are many web hosts around. If you don't already have one,you can find a list of cheap web hosts onhttp://www.thefreecountry.com/webhosting/budget1.shtml

Although not in the above list (since you don't need it to succesfully complete this tutorial), I

also recommend that you register your own domain name. A domain name is a name like"thesitewizard.com". It is a means by which people can reach your website. While it's possiblefor you to get by initially without your own domain, you will encounterinnumerable problemsdown the road if you do so. However, since this tutorial is strictly devoted to designing (creating)and publishing your website with Dreamweaver, I shall leave not delve further into this matter.Instead, I will refer you to the Beginner's Guide mentioned above for this and all the other non-design aspects of creating a website.

How to Set Up Your Website with Dreamweaver CS4's SiteManager

1. Start up Dreamweaver.

2. A window with a top half that looks something like the picture below (without the words"thesitewizard.comDreamweaver CS4 Tutorial" of course) will appear. The actualappearance of the window will be slightly different depending on whether you are usingMac OS X, Windows XP or Windows Vista.
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Near the top of the window is a menu bar with the words "File Edit View Insert ModifyFormat Commands Site Window Help". This menu bar allows you to access many ofDreamweaver's features. We will be using this menu bar extensively in the course of thetutorial.

3. To create a website that you can manage using Dreamweaver, the first thing you shoulddo is to invoke the Site Manager. To do this, click "Site" in the menu bar. When the drop-down menu appears, click the "New Site..." item on that menu.

Important note: in the interest of brevity, I shall refer to such a sequence of clicking the

"Site" menu, followed by clicking the "New Site..." item simply as "Site | New Site..."

4. A dialog box box will appear with a title bar that reads "Site Definition for Unnamed Site2". The actual number that follows the word "Site" may be different if you have ever usedDreamweaver to set up a site before. Don't worry about that. You are about to change itanyway.

If you were to look at the top of the dialog box, you will see two tabs: the "Basic" and the"Advanced" tab. You should currently be using the "Basic" tab. If this is not true, clickthe "Basic" tab to select it. If you don't know which is currently selected, click the"Basic" tab to be sure.

In the main part of the dialog box, you should be able to see a field just under "What

would you like to name your site?" This is where you enter your website's name. If you'renot sure what to call your website at this point, and you have already registered your owndomain name, simply enter your domain name here. For example, if you have bought adomain called "example.com", enter "example.com" (without the quotation marks) intothe box. If you're creating a company website, enter your company name instead. Don'tworry too much about this field: it's merely for your own personal reference in case youcreate many websites and need to distinguish between them. The words typed here won'tappear on your site.

For the purpose of this tutorial, I will assume that you have typed "Example Company"into the box. However, there's no need for you to use this name just because you'refollowing this tutorial. Use your site's real name.

Underneath your site's name is a field for you to enter the web address of your website,following the question "What is the HTTP Address (URL) of your site?". If you havebought the domain "example.com", enter your website address as"http://www.example.com/" (without the quotes), unless your web host tells youotherwise.

Once you've finished entering the above two fields, click the "Next" button at the bottomof the window.
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5. In the next screen that appears, accept the default "No, I do not want to use a servertechnology" and click the "Next" button again.

6. The next window that appears lets you to control where Dreamweaver saves the files youcreate. The default is to place the files in a folder with the same name as your website.You can change the location if you wish. Note that this folder merely determines where

on your computer the website files are saved. You will be taught how to publish thosefiles to your web host in a later step. You should always keep a copy of your website onyour own computer. If you don't know what to do here, just accept the default and click"Next".

7. When the window with the question "How do you connect to your remote server?"appears, click the down arrow in the drop-down box and select "None". You will changethis later when you publish your site, but for now, selecting "None" allows you to quicklyget started with your site with minimum fuss. Click the "Next" button.

8. You will then be presented with a "Site Definition" summary. Click "Done".

How to Create a Two Column Web Page with Header and

Footer in Dreamweaver CS4Now that you have provided Dreamweaver with the basic information needed for it to manageyour website, you will now create your first web page.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will create a two-column web page. By 2 columns, I meanthat the page will have two vertical columns. This is a popular layout among many websitesbecause it is both space-efficient and familiar to users (and as a result of that, user-friendly). Oneof the columns is usually used to hold the site's logo and navigation menu while the other columnthe main content. For example, if you were to look at any of thesitewizard.com's article pages,like the one you're reading, you will see that the left column contains the the navigation elementswhile the right column contains the article itself.

1. Click "File | New...". If you remember what I said earlier, this means to click the "File"menu, followed by the "New..." item on the menu that appears. A window with the title"New Document" will appear.

2. In the Layout column of the window, locate the line that says "2 column liquid, leftsidebar, header and footer". Select that item by clicking it once.


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3. Now glance at the rightmost side of the same window and look for the item "LayoutCSS". It should be somewhere near the bottom of the window. Click the drop-down boxand select "Create New File". This causes Dreamweaver to place information controllingthe appearance of your web page (called "CSS") in a separate file. We want this becauseall the pages on your site will share the same basic layout, and having such informationcontained in a single file saves disk space, bandwidth and speeds up the loading of yourweb page if your visitors load multiple pages of your website.

4. When you've finished doing the above, click the "Create" button.

5. Dreamweaver will issue a dialog box with the title "Save Style Sheet File As". Accept thedefault name and location by clicking the "Save" button.

6. Once you've done that, Dreamweaver will proceed to create a 2 column web page withsome dummy content typed in.

7. Dreamweaver CS4 displays a slightly different screen layout depending on how largeyour monitor resolution is. If your screen resolution is large, Dreamweaver may start upin what it calls the "Split" mode, that is, it may show the underlying "raw" code of yourweb page in the top half of the window (the "Code" portion), and the visually pleasingversion (the "Design" portion) in the bottom half. If your screen is smaller, Dreamweaverwill simply start up in "Design" mode, where only the visually pleasing version isdisplayed.

To standardize the appearance of the Dreamweaver window, for the sake of this tutorial,please click "View | Design" from the menu if you're in the "Split" mode. If you're notsure which mode you're in, just click "View | Design" anyway; no harm will come fromdoing it. This switches the layout to "Design" mode, where only your web page, as itappears in a browser, is shown. Don't worry. If at any time, you feel nostalgic for theoriginal "Split" layout, just use "View | Code and Design" from the menu to get it back.Note, however, that all the steps in this tutorial, as well as the screenshots, assume thatyou are in the "Design" mode, so if you don't switch, you might get confused later whenthe screen doesn't appear the way I describe it.

Introduction to the Home PageBefore you proceed to replacing the "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" text currently used as fillermaterial, it's important to understand the basic theory behind what you'll be doing.

This first page that you'll be designing will be your website's "Home" page. The home page is themain page of your site. It is the page your visitors see when they go to your site by simply typingyourdomain name in their browser. For example, if your domain name is "example.com", andyour visitor types "http://www.example.com/" into their browser, they will end up on your homepage.

Since the home page functions almost like the front door of your website (or as close to a frontdoor as a website can have), it should contain some information about what your site is about, aswell as links to important pages (or sections) of your website. Some webmasters also use thisspace to welcome their visitors and give a short description about what they can hope to see onthe site. For example, a company website that sells products or services should have a home pagethat gives visitors an idea of its products and services, as well as point visitors to individualproduct description pages where they can find more information about the product and place anorder. Even if your site is a personal website, you will still want your main page to give visitors
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an idea of what to expect on your site, and to link to other pages (or at least the main sections) onyour site.

For this tutorial, I will supply example text for a fictitious company called "Example Company",selling fictitious products. I strongly recommend that you use your own text instead of slavishlycopying my supplied dummy text. For example, if your company is called "XYZ Inc", go ahead

and use "XYZ Inc" in places where I use "Example Company". Similarly, if you're making apersonal website, and have named your website after you, such as "Shakespeare's Website",substitute that name in places where I use "Example Company". The same goes for the actualcontent.

How to Design the Home Page of Your Website inDreamweaver CS4

1. Let's take a look at the default two column web page generated by Dreamweaver. Thereis a horizontal bar stretching across the top part of your page labelled "Header". This iswhere you will place the visible name of your website. Under the header are twocolumns. The narrow left column, called the "sidebar" in Dreamweaver, is where you will

eventually place your navigation menu. The wide right column, currently entitled "MainContent" is where you will place the bulk of your web page's content.

2. Directly above "Header", in the part of the window that belongs to Dreamweaver ratherthan your web page, you should be able to see a section that says "Title:" followed by afield that currently contains "Untitled Document". This field is the text that the searchengines will show as being the title of your web page when it displays the results of asearch. It is also the text shown by a web browser in the title bar of the browser windowwhen it displays your page.

Click somewhere in the word "Untitled", and use the delete or backspace key to removethe existing text. In its place, type the name of your website. For example, if your site iscalled "Example Company", replace "Untitled Document" with "Example Company".

Note that this title field is an internal field. The web browser does not display it in thebody (visible portion) of your web page. As mentioned above, the field is only shown in

the title bar of the browser window itself. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, lookat the browser window of this tutorial now. Don't use the scroll bar nor scroll to the top inany way. Just glance upwards at the top edge of the browser window. It should have thewords "Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorial: How to Create a Website with Dreamweaver CS4(thesitewizard.com)" or at least the first part of it. I placed those words into the title fieldfor this page when I created it. Although it doesn't show in the body of a web page, it isstill an integral part of the page, so you should not leave it set as "Untitled Document".


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3. Now we move on to the visible portion of your web page. Begin by replacing the word"Header" with the name of your website. As before, you can do this simply by clickingsomewhere in the word "Header". A blinking text cursor will appear. This text cursorbehaves exactly the way the cursor behaves in a normal word processing program likeOffice or Word. You can move it with your arrow keys as well as use the DEL andbackspace keys to delete characters.

Use the delete or backspace key to remove the existing word and enter your site's nameinstead. For example, replace "Header" with "Example Company" if that's the name ofyour site.

4. Once you've figured out the above, it's a trivial matter to replace the "Main Content"section of the web page with your real content. As before, click somewhere in the words"Main Content", delete the existing text and replace with some appropriate content.

Once you're done with replacing the "Main Content" header, proceed to replace the"Lorem ipsum dolor" (etc) gibberish. Just click somewhere in the top line, delete them,and type your own words. Typing and editing of text in Dreamweaver works more or lessthe same as it does under a wordprocessor. If you need to create new paragraphs, hit the

ENTER (Windows) or Return key (Mac).

The "H2 level heading" subtitle is there merely to show you that you can have subtitles inyour documents as well. Replace it, along with the text below with whatever you want.

If you are really at a loss as to what to type, you can use the following example text,either literally or as a model. However, it's best to write something relevant to yourwebsite so that you don't have to go back and re-edit it later.

Welcome

Example Company deals with all manner of examples. We have examples of literaryworks, pulp fiction, text books, movie reviews, scripts, chairs, tables, householdappliances, and so on. We even have examples of examples.

Featured Product

Dreamweaver Site: This is an example of a Dreamweaver site, created with the help ofthesitewizard.com's tutorial on Dreamweaver. The tutorial teaches you how to create abasic but fully-functional website which you can modify and augment to suit your needs.

5. Don't change anything in the left column (sidebar). You will be adding a navigation menuto this section in later chapters, so just leave it unchanged for now.

6. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and locate the horizontal bar labelled "Footer".Replace the word "Footer" with anything you like. Many webmasters place a copyrightnotice in this section. Very briefly, a copyright notice is simply a sentence like"Copyright 2008 by Christopher Heng". The copyright symbol, , can be inserted byclicking "Insert | HTML | Special Characters | Copyright" from the menu. For moreinformation about copyright, see my other article onCopyright Issues Relevant toWebmasters, at http://www.thesitewizard.com/general/copyright-issues.shtml

7. Once you're satisfied with your web page, save it by clicking "File | Save As...". A dialogbox will appear. Type "index.html" (without the quotation marks) into the "File name"field and click the "Save" button.
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IMPORTANT: make sure that you type the name "index.html" exactly as I gave it,entirely in small letters (lowercase) with no spaces in the word. Do not use any othername. Files with the name "index.html" are regarded as special files by most web servers.Published correctly, when a visitor accesses your website by just the domain name, like"http://www.example.com/", the web server will automatically deliver to them the"index.html" file in your site's main folder.

Introduction to Publishing Your First Web PageBefore we move on to polishing the page up so that it looks at least half-way decent, you willneed to publish the page to yourweb host. That is to say, you will now learn how to transfer yourweb page and its associated files to your web host so that the page becomes "live" on theInternet.

Although you are probably embarrassed to do this at this point, because the page is incomplete,there is actually no cause for worry. If you have not advertised your website's address ("URL")to anyone, no one will ever know your site exists. As a result, this early version of your page willbe seen by no one but you. People will not visit your site out of the blue just because you

happened to sign up for a web hosting account today. Neither will the search engines even knowyour site exists. As you will discover over time, it's not that easy to get visitors.

The main reason that we're publishing your page at this time is that you can get familiar with allthe major stages in the design of a web page: that is, creating a web page involves not onlycrafting the page, but it also involves getting the page from your computer onto your web host'scomputer. Once you get this hurdle out of the way, you will have mastered what is one of thelargest technical challenge a newcomer is likely to face. Don't let this scare you, though; it'sactually quite easy!

Note that you should not skip this step if you want to follow this Dreamweaver CS4 tutorialseries. All my subsequent chapters will assume that you have already done this step. If you missout this step, some of the things described in the next few chapters may not work the way they

are supposed to.

How to Publish Your Web Page Using Dreamweaver1. Start up the Site Manager again. This can be done by clicking "Site | Manage Sites..."

from the menu. A dialog box entitled "Manage Sites" should open, with your website'sname highlighted in the box in the main part of the window. If it's not highlighted, clickthe name to highlight it. Then click the "Edit..." button.

2. The Site Manager wizard that you encountered earlier in this chapter will pop up. Clickthe "Next" button until you arrive at the screen with the message "How do you connect toyour remote server?". In the first part of this tutorial, you selected "None" for this answer.You will now have to change this to the actual values that you will need in order to

publish your web page.In the drop down box for the question, select "FTP". When you do so, the blank sectionunderneath will be populated with a number of additional questions.

3. Essentially, you will need to enter the information thatyour web hostprovided you whenyou first signed up for a web hosting account. Web hosts typically send you a lengthy listof details about your account when you first sign up. Among these is something known asyour "FTP address". FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is the usual means by which you
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transfer your web pages from your own computer to your web host's computer. This actof transferring your files from your computer to your web host's computer is variouslyknown as "uploading" or "publishing".

If your web host sent you the information in an email message, either print the messageout or open it in another window so that you can refer to it. Personally, I think opening it

in another window is better because you can then cut and paste the necessary informationfrom one window to another and avoid typing errors. However, everyone has their ownway of working, so do what suits you best.

4. Put the FTP address that your web host gave you into the answer field of the "What is thehostname or FTP address of your Web Server?" question. If you have your own domainand are hosted on a commercial web host, this address is typically your domain nameprefixed by "ftp". For example, if your domain is "example.com", many web hosts willset up your FTP address to be "ftp.example.com". Check the email you received fromyour web host for this information, or ask them if you cannot find the details. If theaddress is indeed "ftp.example.com", enter that in the box here.

(Note: not all web hosts follow the "ftp.example.com" convention. Some web hosts ask

you to simply use your domain name (ie, "example.com") for the FTP server. Othersprovide you with a hostname that is totally unrelated to your own domain. Make sure youreally read the information given by your web host instead of randomly guessing a valueto enter here.)

5. The next question from Dreamweaver that you'll need to answer is "What folder on theserver do you want to store your files in?". Basically, you cannot simply upload (publish)your files into any folder you like on the web server and hope that they end up in thecorrect directory for your website. Some web hosts tell you that you need to place yourweb pages in a folder called "www". Others require you to publish them into a foldercalled "public_html". Still others say that you should place them in the default directorythat you see when you connect by FTP.

If your web host tells you to simply upload the files when you connect via FTP, leave thebox blank. Otherwise if they tell you that you need to publish your files in a "www"directory or some other folder name, enter that folder name in the box given. If the hostdoes not mention this at all, chances are that you can simply leave the box blank.

6. Type your FTP user name into the "What is your FTP login?" field. As before, thisinformation has to be supplied by your web host.

7. Enter your FTP password into the "What is your FTP password?" field. Obtain thispassword from your web host if you don't already know it. If you don't want to have tokeep entering your password every time you publish a page, leave the "Save" checkboxactivated (it automatically becomes checked when you type your password). If you are

sharing your computer with others, and don't want Dreamweaver to save your password,click the check mark to uncheck it.

8. If your web host tells you that the information you entered above is for SFTP or "SecureFTP", click the "Use Secure FTP (SFTP)" checkbox. Otherwise leave it blank. If youdon't know what to do, and your web host didn't say anything about it, leave itunchecked.

(Note that if you check the secure FTP option, make sure you re-look at the informationprovided by your web host to make sure that the default folder to publish your files is still
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the same. Some web hosts log you in to a different folder when you connect by SFTPfrom the one you get when you connect by FTP. As such, you may have to adjust thefolder name to account for this if you use the SFTP option. In general, if you areconfused or not sure, just leave the box unchecked to use normal FTP. You can alwaysexperiment with this option in the future when you've become more experienced andconfident with publishing using Dreamweaver. For now, let's just get everything workingfirst.)

9. Click the "Test Connection" button to check that you have entered all the informationcorrectly.

Note: If you use Windows Vista, the Windows firewall may issue a message asking youwhether to block or unblock the connection. Be sure to click the "Unblock" button, oryou'll be blocking FTP connections for Dreamweaver. By default, FTP connections aretwo-way, requiring the server you're connecting to to make a connection back to you,hence the warning by the firewall. This is normal, so don't panic when you get thatmessage from Vista. The interference by the firewall may also cause your first test inDreamweaver to fail, leading Dreamweaver to issue a dialog box telling you to use

Passive connections. Just click OK to that message, and click the "Test Connection"again.

If the "Test Connection" button fails, Dreamweaver will display a dialog box asking youto try connecting with Passive FTP. To do this, look at the top of the dialog box to locatethe "Advanced" tab. Click it. Somewhere in the middle of the page is a checkbox for"Use passive FTP". Click the box to activate it. Then click the "Basic" tab at the top ofthe dialog box again, to return you to the wizard view. Finally, click the "TestConnection" button again.

If the test continues to fail, it is possible that you've entered some information incorrectlyearlier. Recheck everything. If in doubt, contact your web host and ask them what

information you need to enter for each field. (Only your web host has such information.)If the test succeeds, click the "Next" button until you get to the final Summary pageagain. Then click the "Done" button. Do not click the Cancel button for a shortcut out ofthis dialog box or you may have to re-enter everything you typed in earlier.

10. Click "Done" again to dismiss the "Manage Sites" dialog box.

11.Now that you've properly configured Dreamweaver for your site, it's time to finallypublish your web page. To do this, click "Site | Put". Dreamweaver will issue a variety ofmessages to let you know the progress of the upload.

When Dreamweaver pops out a message asking you whether it should "Put dependentfiles?" answer "Yes". This merely means that it is to upload things like your images and

CSS files that are required by your web pages.

Testing Your Web PageNow that you have published (uploaded) your web page and its associated files to your site, youwill need to test it by loading it in a web browser. This will let you know whether you have madeany mistakes when entering your details earlier (such as uploading the files to the wrongdirectory).


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