Dreamweaver--Intro

Building any website whether static or dynamic-- is half craft and half art-- Dreamweaver is the tool to blend both. In the early days of the web, most developers hand-coded their webpages using simple text editors such as Notepad and SimpleText. The second generation of web authoring tool brought visual design or WYSISYG (What You See is What You Get) editors to market. What these products furnished ease of layout, they lacked in completeness of code. Professional web developers were requires to hand-code their web pages, even with the most WYSISYG editor.

Dreamweaver is one of the best WYSIWYG editors on the market. The visual edition functions of Dreamweaver allow one to quickly add design and functionality to the pages, without the necessity to program HTML code manually. It's possible to create tables, edit frames, work with layers, insert Javascript behaviors, etc., in a very simple and visual form. In addition, it includes a complete FTP client software, allowing amongst other things to work with visual maps of the Web sites, and updating the Web site in the server without leaving the program.


Tutorials to create layouts:

Creating a Table-Based Page Layout (this is the inclass assignment--remember to define the site first)