HOUR 3. Setting Up a Website

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS HOUR:

• How to define a website by using the Site Definition Wizard

• How to modify a website definition

• How to organize a website

Dreamweaver makes it very easy to open and edit single web pages—much like you would a word processing document. If you’re planning to create multiple pages, however, the very first thing you should do is define a site. That’s what you’ll do this hour. Defining a site gives you a home base to work from. Without a site definition, Dreamweaver may run into difficulties linking or organizing your files.

You use Dreamweaver’s Files panel to plan, create, and manage projects. Eventually you’ll have lots of files: web pages (HTML, or hypertext markup language, ...

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