Dreamweaver MX Tutorial
Created and designed by Vivienne Trulock for ilikecake, 2005
Organising your web-files
It is very important to try to keep all of your files for your web-site in the one folder on your C drive. If you forget to put, say, a particular image into your folder that you want to use on your site, then when you upload your site to the web, your lovely image won't be there.
Creating your folder
Right-click on the desktop and select 'New > Folder'. Name it My First Site.
Open this folder up and create another folder, calling it images. This is where we will save all our images.
Naming files
When your web-site is accessed on the net, the server, by default, shows the page called 'index.htm'. You should call your first page 'index.htm', and have your other pages linked to that one via a menu of some description. The index.htm page should be in the top level. Also, it is good practice to use lower case letters only and no spaces in any of your file names.
Caching
When a web-site is opened on a computer, it is cached in the computer's memory. You can use this to your advantage by repeating the same graphics or logo on all your pages. Opening the second and subsequent pages on your web-site will be faster because the computer can access the same images that were on page one more quickly.
Linked style sheets work the same way. The style sheet downloads once, and all the pages can access it.
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