Lesson 2: Getting Started

Goal of This Walkthrough

• The goal of this walkthrough is to create this webpage from the files provided. In the process, you will learn how to do all the steps listed in the contents on the left.

Step 1: Downloading the Necessary Files

1. First, download this zip file (named walkthrough.zip) and save and unzip it to your student folder. If you don't know how to do this, please ask for assistance. This file contains all the documents necessary for the tutorial.

Step 2: Starting the Page

1. Open up Dreamweaver by clicking on the Start button and going to Programs > Macromedia. Click on the Dreamweaver icon to open up Dreamweaver.

2. Open up the pathfinder.txt document, which should be in your web folder if you downloaded walkthrough.zip correctly and unzipped it in your web folder. The file should open up in Notepad or a similar text editor.

3. Select and copy all the text in the pathfinder.txt document by going to Edit > Select All in the pathfinder.txt window and then going to Edit > Copy. Paste it into the Dreamweaver window by clicking in the Dreamweaver window and then going to Edit > Paste. The pathfinder.txt text should now appear.

Step 3: Saving the Page

1. Save the page by going to File > Save. It should prompt you to give the file a name if you have not saved it before.
2. Name this page pathfinder.html. Make sure you save it in your student folder.

Step 4: Introduction to the Toolbars

• There are two toolbars in Dreamweaver that we will be using in this tutorial:

1. The first toolbar is called the Properties Toolbar. Because this is the main toolbar, we will be referring to it in this tutorial as simply the Toolbar. (If this toolbar does not appear on your screen, go to Window and make sure that Properties is checked.)

2. The second toolbar is called the Objects Toolbar. (If this toolbar does not appear on your screen, go to Window and make sure that Objects is checked.)