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  • Liam:o
    Member
    • Nov 2007
    • 64

    #1

    Making a website with dreamweaver

    Hey have to make 2 three page websites with dream wearver, I have the programme installed was just wondering are any of you familer with making a site? Or is there any good tutorials that you know of? I am getting payed to make them but have never done it before, any info would be helping ie, hosting and stuff not quite sure of

    Cheers
  • Hellsent 2.0
    Member
    • Jul 2007
    • 2137

    #2
    Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

    File> New (insert pictures and all that jazz) save, then create a new html file for each new page...it really is simple once you sit down and try...

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    • iQue
      Member
      • May 2007
      • 4925

      #3
      Re: Making a website with dreamweaver



      Otherwise, dreamweaver is pretty self explanatory. Just drag and drop most of the time. I personally find it much easier to just code and then see how it will look like in dreamweaver itself, both to avoid very sloppy code and because you can sort of unify the entire site much better.

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      • =98=
        Member
        • Oct 2006
        • 10299

        #4
        Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

        Please do not use Dreamweaver, it bastardises the code so much that it's practically impossible to manually edit once finished.

        Just sit down with Notepad or Context and write it yourself, it's so much easier to follow when maintaining :)

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        • Busby, Paul (Bicci)

          #5
          Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

          +1 on the above, there are plenty of free basic HTML and CSS scripts you can use and manupulate to your own liking.

          Just google HTML tutorialsthere is hundreds

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          • MrChris_CJ
            Mudkips
            • Jul 2005
            • 2610

            #6
            Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

            agree, Dreamweaver is horrible imo, have never used it to create a webpage

            W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.


            start there with html on how to code a website, its very easy once you pick it up

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            • =98=
              Member
              • Oct 2006
              • 10299

              #7
              Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

              Originally posted by MrChris_CJ
              W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.


              start there with html on how to code a website, its very easy once you pick it up
              W3 schools is the absolute best site out there for languages. Be sure to run your code through their validator as well before publishing :)

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              • Numptie
                FAAAABULOUS!
                • Apr 2007
                • 1464

                #8
                Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

                I agree with the majority here, I find it easier to code it in notepad, the only time Ive used dreamweaver was in year 10/11 when we had to use it, if I did all the coding to create a webpage I would of failed the GCSE(****ing schools)

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                • CaptainKirk

                  #9
                  Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

                  I use Dreamweaver's code view for coding because it highlights things and has f12 preview.

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                  • MrKLM
                    Member
                    • Apr 2006
                    • 3146

                    #10
                    Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

                    Dreamweaver is great.

                    why would someone pay you to design a website if you have never done it before?!

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                    • Hellsent 2.0
                      Member
                      • Jul 2007
                      • 2137

                      #11
                      Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

                      I agree that Dreamweaver is a great program, but you cannot beat the flexibility of notepad...also you dont get all the crap code added in by dreamweaver if your using notepad..but atm, I'm making a site in dreamweaver and I'm enjoying it...

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                      • iQue
                        Member
                        • May 2007
                        • 4925

                        #12
                        Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

                        Dreamweaver is good if you're making a website for the first time.. but for anything beyond a few simple pages, it's just going to get very very messy quickly

                        With Notepad, Notepad++ or whatever you use it's going to stay clean, much easier to just add comments explaining what you have done, and not every page is going to have different code. Easier to maintain and a lot more flexible.

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                        • CaptainKirk

                          #13
                          Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

                          If you know how to use Dreamweaver, it can be really helpful. It was better back before Adobe got ahold of it (I have MX2004, the last Macromedia version), but even the new Studio 9 can still suit even the best developer if he knows what he's doing.

                          It's kind of like Photoshop. You could use Paint; it has fewer buttons.

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                          • Spik3d
                            Member
                            • Feb 2006
                            • 4890

                            #14
                            Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

                            Dreamweaver's for HTML/CSS illiterates.

                            In my web design class, we used textpad which colors the code, but notepad works fine. Just find a free template online or a layout and work off of that to get started. It's much better to work on the code than with things like Dreamweaver.

                            And this is the site my web design teacher showed us: http://htmldog.com/

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                            • Liam:o
                              Member
                              • Nov 2007
                              • 64

                              #15
                              Re: Making a website with dreamweaver

                              Ok guys, After iget it made where do i host it and how do i get it to come up if some one is searching for it

                              I found a site called wix.com.. Any good?

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