Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

The Dreamweaver Test Drive

Although reading a book is a good way to learn the ins and outs of a program, nothing beats sitting in front of a computer and putting that program through its paces. Many of this book’s chapters, therefore, conclude with hands-on training: step-by-step tutorials that show you how to create a real, working, professionally designed website for a fictional café, Cafe Soylent Green.

The rest of this chapter introduces Dreamweaver by taking you step by step through the process of building a web page. It shouldn’t take more than an hour. When it’s over, you’ll have learned the basic steps for building any web page: creating and saving a new document, adding and formatting text, inserting graphics, adding links, and tapping the program’s site-management features.

If you already use Dreamweaver and want to jump right into the details of the program, feel free to skip this tutorial. (And if you’re the type who likes to read first and try second, read Chapter 2 through Chapter 5 and then return to this point to practice what you just learned.)

Note

The tutorial in this chapter requires the example files from this book’s website, http://www.sawmac.com/dwcs6/. Click the Download Tutorials link to save the files to your local drive. The tutorial files are in Zip format, a technology that compresses a lot of files into one, smaller archive file.

Windows folks should download the Zip file and then double-click it to open the archive. Click the Extract All Files option and ...