Background, Title & Filename

Open the programme by clicking on this icon on the desktop or by going to Démarrer > Programmes > Macromedia Dreamweaver 2

This is the screen that opens.

The Properties Window

There are three floating windows . Each can be grabbed in the top blue bar and moved around . For the moment we can shut the Objets floating window and the Lanceur floating window to leave only this one open on the screen:

This is the Properties floating window and it's extremely useful.The Properties window gives you information about whatever you are doing on the screen (typing text, selecting a picture or a table etc) and modifications can be made.

PAGE & TEXT COLOURS

A website should be limited to just two or three colours for its background, text and decoration. This gives the site coherence and identity.

So lets begin by choosing the background, text, and links  colours. In the top, horizontal menu click on Modifier > Propriètes de la page

Now go to > Couleur de l'arrière-plan.

Choose a colour from the palette.

A light background colour with dark text rather than a dark background with light text makes reading easier .

Now choose a text colour from the palette :

This should contrast with the background colour for easy reading. The three link colours (Link, Active and Visited should be the same colour as the text.)

Click OK when you're satisfied with the colours and have a look at the results. Type a few words to see the text colour.

Recording the homepage

Click Fichier>Enregistrer Sous> Enregistrer Dans. Look for your space on the server. Create a new folder using this button:

Name your new folder Website and click on it  so that it opens.In small type the name the file index. The first page of a website is always called index:

Giving your website a title.

The title of a website appears in the top left-hand corner of the screen on every page of the site.

It also appears on the top left corner of a sheet of paper if the page is printed. Click Modifier > Propriètes de la page > Titre and type your chosen title.

Don't forget to record your page: type Ctrl S.

Checking your work

This is approximately what you've you 've got in Dreamweaver:

If you want to see how your page would appear on the internet type F12 and it opens in Internet Explorer: