This lab will get you using Dreamweaver in no time at all.
Start up Dreamweaver on computers in our lab: Start -> General Applications -> Web authoring -> Dreamweaver 4. Dreamweaver should open several windows; today you'll only need the main document window.
Essentially, Dreamweaver is a word processor for Web documents. Having taken CPSC 101 (or its equivalent), you should already be familiar with word processing. While Dreamweaver looks different from most other word processors, the only real difference is how writing for the Web is different from writing papers.
Consequently, the textbook for this course should really be thought of as a reference text to lookup answers for questions or problems that you encounter. It's probably overkill to actually sit down and read the book from cover to cover, at least for now.
Write a short paragraph in the main document window giving
Save this file to your own floppy or zip disk as me.htm.
Note that Dreamweaver will automatically save your files with the
.htm extension so you should not enter that in as part
of the file name.
Once the file is saved, view your Web page as an actual Web page. Choose File -> Preview in Browser -> ieexplorer. Your paragraph may look a little difference in the Web broswer than it did in Dreamweaver. It should good both places despite the differences. This is natural for all well written Web pages. As long as it looks good in the Web browser, print the Web page from the browser.
All you've done this week is write a Web page. No one else can see this page. The Web browser just displayed this page as a local file saved on your disk. Next week you'll publish some pages for everyone on the Web to see.
Turn in a printed copy of your paragraph. Be sure your name, course number (i.e., "110"), section letter, and "Lab #1" are printed clearly on the paper. This is worth 5 points. See the schedule page for the due date.
Project #1 has you write a few Web pages for the beginnings of your personal home pages. It has you play around with the formatting of your Web pages, so you might want to start working on this if you have time at the end of the lab period.
Read over and begin the email project.
Schedule page --- Project #1 --- email project --- Web project
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