Dreamweaver Template and Web Publishing

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Dreamweaver Template and Web Publishing
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General steps of web site design

• Survey
• Whos my audience
• Decide the general style
• Organize information
• Layout design
• Template design
• Implementation
• Generating content page from template.
• Testing the web site
• Publishing

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Dreamweaver Templates

• What is a Dreamweaver template?
• A special HTML file (with .dwt)
• What are the advantages of using a template to
  create the pages in a web site?

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Key elements in Template
Non Editable Region
Editable Region
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Key elements in Template

• Non-editable region same for every pages
• Editable region different in different pages
• Non-editable region is default
• How to insert editable region
• Insert menu-gttemplate object-gteditable region

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Defining your MyMSU site

• Create a folder for your MyMSU site
• In Dreamweaver create a New Site
• Setup the Local Folder
• Name the site MyMSU website
• Set the other values in the local folder tab

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Creating a Template

• Read the Dreamweaver Help
• Creating a Dreamweaver Template
• Inserting an Editable Region
• Which document divisions should be editable?
• How should you decide?

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Filling out the web site

• Read the section on Creating a template-based
  document in the Dreamweaver help
• Create the pages from the template.
• File menu-gtnew-gtTemplate

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Getting it Online

• MSU makes it easy for us to create our own
  personal websites
• A little harder in the outside world to create a
  professional website
• Need
• Domain Name
• Need a Host to store files and direct traffic to
  the domain name
• FTP software to transfer files to the web host

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Example

• Web server home.comcast.net
• FTP server upload.comcast.net
• User name nanzhang
• PAGE URL http//home.comcast.net/nanzhang

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Domain Names

• The domain is a name assigned to a computer that
  can be used to access it through the Internet
• Also called a web address
• Domain names are registered
• http//www.msu.edu is the URL, but msu.edu is the
  domain name

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Top Level Domains

• Different extension signify different types of
  websites
• These are the Top Level Domains
• .com commercial
• .net internet service providers
• .org non-profit organizations
• .edu colleges and universities
• .gov Federal Government
• .us state and local government/schools
• .tv Tuvalu
• .info, .ws, .usa

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Second Level Domain Names

• Domains to which registered addresses will point
  are called second-level domains
• Lower level domain names are not registered
• msu.edu is a second-level domain (www.msu.edu)
• lbs.msu.edu is a lower level domain
• To access lbs.msu.edu, contact must be made to
  msu.edu to find out where lbs.msu.edu is

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Domain Levels

• Which are top-level, second-level, and
  third-level domains?
• espn.go.com
• www.pmlodge.com
• projectpuffin.org
• puffin.bird.audubon.org
• detroit-pistons.com
• isthatallyouget.com
• studyabroad.msu.edu
• poison.dart.frogs.com
• If it is a third or fourth-level domain, what is
  the registered second level domain?

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INTERNIC

• Internet Network Information Center government
  owned
• INTERNIC formerly handled all domain name
  registration
• Network Solutions, a private company, processed
  the registrations (now VeriSign)
• Network Solutions then took over registration
• Now several companies can register domains

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Naming Rules

• When INTERNIC controlled it there were more
  rules.
• Now Up to 67 characters
• Can have hyphens, e.g. project-puffin.org
• Cannot have ! _at_ ( ) ? Symbols

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Domain Name Availability

• You can purchase domain names by paying the
  registration fee (16-35/year)
• You do not have to put a site online to own the
  domain name
• Network Solutions has a WhoIs lookup database
• BetterWhoIs is easier to use
• Check for availability
• http//www.betterwhois.com

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Getting a Domain Name

• Find an ICANN Authorized Registrar
• Choose name and pay for domain registration
• Best to have registrar and domain host to be the
  same company
• www.webhostit.com is a very good, low cost
  registrar and host (16/year registration,
  7.95/month for hosting)
• www.verisign.com is the Big, Bad (near)
  Monopoly (35 a year, 9.95/month and UP)

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Domain Hosting

• Hosting is a separate issue
• Domain registration is just getting a name
• Hosting is finding a computer to keep your files
  on and point the domain to

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Free Website Hosting

• For personal stuff, you dont need a domain name
• Msu.edu works great while a student
• Free Hosting Services
• Geocities.com
• Angelfire.com
• Your ISP (e.g. ATT Cable, AOL, )
• Internet Service Provider