Building a site
The process of building a site consist in very simple steps:
1- Create HTML files
2- Link them together
3- Publish them
Create HTML file(s)
An HTML file is nothing more than a text that contains HTML tags.
If we create a .txt file and we type some html code in it, we simply
need to save it and to rename the extension from .txt to .htm. This
is already an HTML file.
The best and more accurate way to do HTML is by using text editors
but due to the facility that softwares like Macromedia Dreamweaver
give us, we will follow this process trhough Dreamweaver MX.
Dreamweaver
If we open Dreamweaver we can notice that a new document is already
open.
Now we need to set Dreamweaver so that any new document will be
XHTML compatible. To do this:
- file --> new (or Ctrl+N)
- select 'Basic page' in the first column and 'HTML' in the second
one
- select 'Make Document XHTML Compliant'
- click on 'create'
From now on any new document (unles specified otherwise) will be
XHTML compatible, this means that the page respect the XHTML standards.
Now we can start filling the page with our content.
By default the first page a browser will load on a website is 'index.htm'
or 'default.htm'. So we can already save this first file with the
name index.htm:
- file --> save (or Ctrl+S)
- name it index.htm
- click OK
The next sections will cover the rest of the process.
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