New webmaster's guide to Dreamweaver 4 : the seven steps for designing, building, and managing Dreamweaver 4 web sites

Designed specifically for busy professionals, this guide to Dreamweaver 4 breaks down the work of designing, building, and managing a Web site into seven distinct and fast-paced steps. Background information on the Internet, the Web, and different approaches to Web publishing is provided, as is a detailed discussion of the foundational work-such as registering for a domain and finding and setting up a Web hosting service-that needs to be done before the process of building a site begins. Further steps investigate collecting and organizing site content; setting up an initial structure; creating pages by combining text, images, and hyperlinks; refining and polishing pages; and testing, deploying, and marketing the site. Designed specifically for busy professionals, this guide to Dreamweaver 4 breaks down the work of designing, building, and managing a Web site into seven distinct and fast-paced steps. Background information on the Internet, the Web, and different approaches to Web publishing is provided, as is a detailed discussion of the foundational work-such as registering for a domain and finding and setting up a Web hosting service-that needs to be done before the process of building a site begins. Further steps investigate collecting and organizing site content; setting up an initial structure; creating pages by combining text, images, and hyperlinks; refining and polishing pages; and testing, deploying, and marketing the site.

Author Biography: Jason Gerend is a freelance technical writer and is a contributing editor of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion and FrontPage 2000 at a Glance. He lives in Bellingham, Washington. Stephen L. Nelson is the author of QuickBooks 2000 for Dummies, Effective Executive's Guide to Project 2000, and Quicken 2000 for Windows for Dummies. His books on using computers in business have sold more than three million copies. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Step 1 Determine Y Your our W Web eb Site’ Site’s s Goals......Page 22 Step 2 Lay Y Your our Foundation......Page 38 Step 3 Collect and Organize Y Your our Content......Page 64 Step 4 Create Y Your our Site......Page 86 Step 5 Create Y Your our Pages......Page 110 Step 6 Polish Y Your our Pages......Page 146 Step 7 Deploy Y Your our W Web eb Site......Page 192 Appendix A Internet and W Web eb Basics......Page 220 Appendix B An Introduction to HTML......Page 230 Appendix C Hyperlinks in Dreamweaver......Page 234 Appendix D Creating W Web eb Stores......Page 238 Appendix E Using Frames......Page 246 Glossary......Page 256 Index......Page 268