3. Before we start
Dreamweaver (DW) may take several minutes to
start.
Click on Start => Program Files => Development
Apps => Web => Dreamweaver MX =>
Dreamweaver MX to start the program.
Accept default choice for layout.
Minimizing the Dreamweaver. We will use it
later.
Copy Everything from my public folder (including
this ppt file) to your P: drive.
U:msuusernananzhangpublic
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5. Web Page Development Cycle
EDIT and SAVE the file in your AFS
p:webindex.html
TEST by BROWSING to the page
http://www.msu.edu/~msunetid/index.html
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6. Adding Text to Your HTML File
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My home page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
My name is your name.
My major is your major.
</BODY>
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8. Adding Information to Web Page
My name is your name
My major is your major
I am creating this page for LBS 126 and will
be modifying this page throughout the course.
Please visit again!
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9. More HTML tag pairs
<u> </u> tag pair is for underline
<em> </em> tag pair is for italic style.
<H1> </H1>
…
<H6> </H6> are headlines with different
sizes.
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10. Formatting Your Web Page with more
tags
My name is your name
My major is your major
I am creating this page for CSE 101
and will be modifying this page
throughout the course.
Please visit again!
Underline & Italic
Italic
H1
H2
Separate
Paragraph
Separate
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11. Now it is time to use Dreamweaver MX
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12. Creating a Link
My name is your name
My major is your major
I am creating this page for CSE 101
and will be modifying this page
throughout the course.
Please visit again!
Make this a
link to the
LBS Home
page
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13. More things to do
Make a bullet list for your four favorite
things in MSU. Change the font of this list
to “Times New Roman”
Changing page properties:
Set background color for the page.
What else can you change for the page
properties?
Download a MSU logo, save to your web
folder and insert to the top of your page.
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14. Problems
The Tags only provided limited formatting.
H1 is always that big.
Links always have an underscore.
You can manually change the format for
all the H1 headlines, but what about your
have 100 pages in your web site?
Can we customize the HTML tags?
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15. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
What is style?
Style is a list of formatting instructions.
A Cascading Style Sheet is a file with a
list of formatting instructions.
CSS style sheets are the modern way to
control the appearance and layout of your
web pages.
4.0 and up Navigator and IE fully support
CSS.
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16. Unpacking Sample Web Site
Open the file common.zip you just copied
using EnZIP
Click on Edit => Extract and extract the files
to your web folder
The files will appear in a new folder commons
Browse to the practice web site
http://www.msu.edu/~MSUNetID/commons/
Why didn’t you give a file name in the URL?
View all seven pages in the site.
What tags control the formatting of the headings?
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17. Cascading Style Sheet
Enter the following text into a new
Notepad document
h2 {
font-family : Tahoma;
color : blue;
text-align : center;
}
Save the document in the commons
folder as csense.css
Save as file type Text Document
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18. Attach a Style Sheet to HTML files
In properties window-
>Styles drop box,
choose “Manage
styles…”
Use “Attach…” to
attach the .css file
you just created.
Do the same thing for
all the seven pages.
What happens?
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20. Separation of Content and
Presentation
Content
Use tags like <h1>, <h2>, <p>, <em> or
<li> to indicate the structure of your pages
Presentation
Use a CSS style sheet to determine how the
tags are formatted
Advantage of separation
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21. Edit styles in Dreamweaver
In the Design->CSS Styles
window you can edit the
styles you already have, or
create new styles.
Let’s create a new style for
the link HTML tag: <a>
</a>
High light the CSS file first
Click here
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22. Change the style of HTML Link Tag
a:link – Customizes the style of a link that has not been
visited recently
a:visited -- Customizes the style of a link that has been
recently visited
a:hover -- Customizes the style of a link while the user’s
mouse is over it.
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