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Because you will need to save changes that you make to some of the template files, you should copy the provided templates over to your hard drive.
As you go through the tutorials you will be asked to make changes to some of the files. In order to do this, you will need to open the file in a text editor. SimpleText for Macs or Notepad for Windows are the recommended text editors.
Remember to save the changes that you make to the tutorials and then view your changes by opening your file in a Web browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer. If you have not saved your changes, they will not show up when you view your file in the browser.
There will be many occasions where you will be asked to view a file in a browser and then look at the source code in your text editor. When you view a file in a browser, you see the content of the page without seeing the HTML tags. When you view the source of a page, you see the HTML tags as well as the content of the page.
The best way to view the contents of a file is to click on the provided link, or go to the "Open File" command under the "File" menu.
To view the source code:
To publish, you must first create a folder in your FTP account. You only need to do this once.
To publish a document (e.g., document.html), FTP it to the folder in your FTP account. FTP settings are described below.
Instructions on downloading Dreamweaver software.
Instructions on defining site in Dreamweaver.
Tip: To see a quick video introduction to DWMX workspace, follow the link below, , and look for 'Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004.'
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/online/ondemand/ (you will need to create/register a userid to view. Reuse this same account for all your future extension downloads from macromedia) |
Recently ipswitch has replaced 'WS_FTP Lite' with 'WS_FTP home', which is a paid version. You can find various free FTP programs on the internet such as: FTP Commander which can be downloaded from http://www.vista.ru/2inter.htm or FileZilla which can be found at http://www.download.com/.
Note: These two screen capture files will act as a visual guide to give you a better picture of how FTP works. Although the urls & username conventions are not the same, the method of using FTP is consistent. Watch them to gain a better overview of FTP or scroll down to read the text instructions. Happy FTPing! (Note: The videos are packaged in downloadable zip files. Download the files, extract them, and double click on the files listed below.)
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