Dreamweaver MX Tutorial

Created and designed by Vivienne Trulock for ilikecake, 2005

When making a website...

Decide what pages you will have
Decide how your user will navigate from one page to the next
Create a design in an imaging editing package incorporating the navigation you've designed
Test design on different colour depths to see how it looks
Check it with www.vischeck.com (on-line) or aDesigner (download) to make sure colour blind and other visually impaired readers can see it ok
If any problems modify design and colours until design is ok
Cut up design and create layout page
Save as Template
Create style sheet attached to template - use relative text sizes
Create some pages from template
Test site on different browsers to see how they look - IE and Netscape
If problems, redesign template and test again till ok in all browsers
Test on different computer systems - Window and Mac
If problems, redesign template and test again till it works on all systems
Evaluate site using real users - watch them to see if they are having difficulties with anything, particularly navigation or colour, is the content relevant?
Modify site to ease any difficulties
Finish creating pages
Get server space - recommend www.atspace.com
Get domain name if required - recommend 123-reg
Upload site to internet using FTP
Submit to search engines using the Open Directory Project

The current incarnation of this website will help you through steps 7, 8, 9, 10 & 20...