Important concept: You can make a website complete with link, graphics and content, but it will remain in a local folder on your computer until you publish it to a web hosting service. You may wish to purchase your own domain name first. Here is a list of the top15 for 2014 (and their fees) according to Review.org

Dreamweaver makes it easy to create a dropdown menu - you must upload your Spry Assests folder to make it work:

• Earlier Classes
  • Class One
  • Class Two
  • Class Three
• Item 2
• Item 3
  • Item 3.1
    • Item 3.1.1
    • Item 3.1.2
  • Item 3.2
  • Item 3.3
• Item 4

Check your site before we publish

• Do you use a standard font for your text blocks? Why is this important?
• Do you have good clear contrast in your text blocks/backgrounds?
• Do you have titles for your pages, not just Untitled 1?
• Do you use tables or some other method to keep your text and pictures in order?
• Was your web folder saved in the correct manner in the right place?
• Are your navbars centered when appropriate?
• Do you have an email link?
• Do you include a thumbnail image?
• Do you include an animation or other dynamic effect?
• Do you use a consistent clear layout and color scheme?
• Are your images clear, not "pixelated?"
• Are your images distorted or out of proportion?
• Do your viewers have to scroll a long way to reach the end of the page?
• Do your hyperlinks work, both internal and external?
• Are your hyperlinks clearly marked, logically placed, and easy to follow?

EXTRAS:

• Making an Interactive Button
• How to Make a Thumbnail Picture
• Changing the File Name of Your Home Page
• Tables in SeaMonkey
• Creating a New Website in Expression Web
• Creating a Home Page in Expression Web
• Importing Images into Your Site
• Making New Pages and Hyperlinks
• Using Tables for Structure in Expression Web\
• How to Link to your email
• How to Make a Thumbnail Picture
• Using an image for a background
• Make an interactive button in Expression Web
• Sounds
• Video

HANDS-ON: Publishing Your Website on the Trinity Server (which is free)

For safety, backup your 25myweb folder onto your Y drive in case you want to continue to update it . . . . . .

Open your HTML-Documents folder on Sol and copy and paste the folders and files from inside your Web folder (26myweb). The  page named index.htm is your home page.

To open your HTML-Documents folder:
start >> run>> \\sol.cs.trinity.edu\userid\Local\HTML-Documents (substitute your own userid)

 

url: http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~userid

Publish Web on Sol and view Webs on Internet.
Check title that appears on title bar on each page.
Have someone else browse to your web and check for broken links and images.

Unpublish Web on Sol (if you ever need to):

Delete the files in your HTML-Documents folder in your Sol account.

Homework:

1. Make changes, additions and corrections to your website that you feel necessary.  Re-publish the page(s) with changes. Be prepared to show your site to the class on Thursday.

 

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