dreamweaver

[Pambo1970]

Hi all.

I live in Panamá in cental america and here there are not many people who create webpages. I am trying to learn how to use dreamweaver (educational edition) to create a webpage. However, this is very hard without help. Does anyone know of a tutorial that takes you step by step? if so plz tell me where it is. Thanks for your time.

Pambo

[MikeP]

We have a few Dreamweaver tutorials right here on Intranet Journal.

Among them:

The original Dreamweaver tutorial:
http://www.intranetjournal.com/artic...eam_index.html

Dreamweaver 4 tutorial:
http://www.intranetjournal.com/artic...0103/dw1a.html

Dreamweaver MX The Hidden Tips:
http://www.intranetjournal.com/artic...07_24_02a.html

Dreamweaver MX - The Pro's Perspective
http://www.intranetjournal.com/artic...07_29_02a.html

I hope this helps.

[Pambo1970]

Thanks Mike:

But i have allready tried some of the tutorials mentioned. I need something that will take me step by step. I do not know anything at all about creating a web page. I have never worked opn anything remotely. I have some experience with photoshop but that is all. I need something for people that have no previous knowledge about this.

Thanks.

Pambo

[MikeP]

Then you need to start at the very beginning, learning some HTML perhaps before you dive into editors like Dreamweaver.

Try these:

http://webreference.com/html/tutorial1/

and

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/nontechintro/

[paulc]

Hi Pambo,

In addition to Mike's suggestions, you may also want to try out:

"Macromedia Dreamweaver Free Courses/Tutorials" located at:

www.learnthat.com/courses/viewlets/dreamweaver/


For coding (HTML, CSS, etc...) , try "W3Schools - Full Web Building Tutorials" at: www.w3schools.com


Paul Chin

[Pambo1970]

Thanks for the help Guys.

I have gone into the w3cschool.com and it has been a lot of help. I have learned a lot about html and it is not that hard. I used to program in fortran and pascal and cobolt so this is not that hard for me.

But, I still do not understand how to do some basic things to my website.

For instance:

1- Why does only one part of my page go online? In other words. I have created three files that are diferent parts of the same page because i can only sent 1 mega through the ftp to my server( it´s free site). when i send the files only the one that i called index goes on line. Why?

2- My site consists of a page with two frames but only one frame loads up What do I do to load both at the same time.

Plz. Take under account that i have done this with dreamweaver.

Thanks for your time.

pambo

[petez]

1- Why does only one part of my page go online? In other words. I have created three files that are diferent parts of the same page because i can only sent 1 mega through the ftp to my server( it´s free site). when i send the files only the one that i called index goes on line. Why?

A few things here. Firstly, no web page should be as big as 1 meg - they shouldn't even be close to that. If it's that big, something's wrong - I doubt that it could be.

When you visit a site, for example www.mysite.comm, the page you are presented with is either index.htm, default.htm, or variations on those. Other pages you create you can address directly in your browser (www.mysite.comm/mypage.htm), or link to from other pages.

I recommend you don't use frames at all until you've understood the basics, Dreamweaver doesn't make learning about them very easy. They're also frowned upon by many people for causing problems with search engines, so stick to plain pages for the time being.

If you do still want to use them, you'll need to give us some more details as to what is / isn't working, or give us a link to your site so we can see it for ourselves.

Peter.