Macromedia Studio 8 [Electronic resources] : Training from the Source نسخه متنی

Creating the Placeholder Pages

Different developers have different workflows for creating Web sites. Some developers like to create and develop pages one at a time, as they build the site, while others like to create placeholder pages in advance and then go back and fill in the content. You'll use the second approach in this lesson. One benefit of creating placeholder pages in advance is that you can then take advantage of Dreamweaver's site and link management features.

The process is somewhat repetitive, since you'll be doing the same three tasks over and over: creating a new page based on the template, changing the page title and header, and saving the file.

Lesson 5, Developing a Page Template.

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The image of the template in the preview window might appear misaligned. You can disregard that.

Remember, the title is not displayed in the body of the document. It's shown in the browser title bar and is used by search engines. It's important to name each page descriptively.

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Normally, the next step would be to change the page heading, but it already says Home, which is what we want.

You're going to do more to this page in the next task, but for now, the page at least exists.

In each case, you can leave the "Body text goes here" placeholder alone. You'll fix that later.

As mentioned earlier, the final version of this site will have three major components: an interactive map of the

Inferno , an administrative area where users can see information about all the students in the class, and a quiz. You can see how these six pages represent the three components.