A problem we are asked about many times at ITM Design is that a client has made a document on their computer, but when sent to a different computer, the two documents look completely different. This can become an annoyance, especially when you’ve spent so long making the document look attractive with well formatted content. In some cases, the document may be professional and it is important that it remains the same to the person you are sending it to.
Read on to discover how simple it is to convert your documents to a PDF, -a file type that makes your documents appear exactly the same to anyone viewing it. Read the rest of this entry »
Having followed our previous blog post: “How do I upload my Website using Dreamweaver?“, we know how to set up a site definition and connect Dreamweaver to our web server. We have our local files (the files on our computer) listed in the Files toolbar and we’re ready to start uploading and editing when we need to do so.
If you don’t have any local files. Let’s make a very quick web page just to get started. Feel free to skip this next paragraph if your website is ready to upload.
Using the File Toolbar
Click ‘File’ > ‘New’ and then click ‘Blank Page’ and ‘HTML’ > ‘none’. We can then click ‘Create’ to open a blank webpage. Simply put a little bit of content into this page (we’re going to type “Hello World!” in ours). When you are happy with the content click ‘File’ > ‘Save’. We need to save this file where we told Dreamweaver our local files we’re stored in the previous tutorial. We used a folder found at: ‘C:\Documents and Settings\ITMDesign\Desktop\localhost’, so let’s save it there. You should then see the file appear in your Files toolbar as shown above. It is important to note that if this page you have just created is going to be the first page of your website you should save it as ‘index.html’. Whenever someone visits ITMDesign.co.uk (or whatever your website address is) their browser knows ‘index’ will be the first page to display.
Adobe Dreamweaver is a program that many web developers use for creating and maintaining websites. It has many advanced features that make web development as easy as possible and is ideal for both professionals and beginners.
One of the most confusing aspects of web design for a beginner is getting your website from your computer to the Internet. This is done using a process called uploading, which copies the files you want to upload, from your comptuer to a server on the Internet - the opposite of downloading.
continue reading to learn more about uploading and how to do so using Adobe Dreamweaver (formely Macromedia Dreamweaver).
