Basic Dreamweaver: Famous Person Web Page

Click here to see my sample page.

 

1. Before you start:

• Make sure that the pictures for your famous person page are on your desktop.

• The names of your pictures should be in all lower-case letters with no spaces.

• Your pictures' names must end in .jpg (could be .jpeg), .gif, or .png.

• You should have lowered the contrast on your background picture and raised the brightness so that it will be easy to read dark text on top of it.

 

2. Click on the Dreamweaver icon to start the program:

dreamweaver icon

 

3. Right-click these links and save these files to your desktop:  the DR. KING PAGE, the DR. KING PICTURE, and the BACKGROUND PICTURE.

 

4. Open the Dr. King page (drking.html) in Dreamweaver.  

 

5. Immediately click File-->Save As... and save it ON THE DESKTOP as index.html.

index.html is a special filename that browsers load automatically.

 

6.  Overtype the text in the code window with your text. After you've done that, change the title in the <head> section to your new title, and change the names of the small picture and the background picture from the old ones to your new ones.


7. Save your page (File-->Save).

 

8. To try out your page, click File-->Real Time Preview-->Firefox (or Chrome, or Safari).

• Try the links out to see if they work.

• If the links work, and you like the way it looks, you're done!