How to build a website.

This class was given on the 27th September 2005 as a crash course on using Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady, and Macromedia Dreamweaver to build a website.

Lesson Plan and Timeframe:

Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady (3hrs)

Creating a Photo Gallery (1hr)

Animations- Creating a Banner (1hr)

Webpages- Design a webpage and save to html, will edit via Dreamweaver during second ½ of class. (1hr)

Dreamweaver (2hrs)

HTML Basics

Creating a new page

Tables vs Frames

Style Sheets

Editing the webpages created by Photoshop and ImageReady

Using Properties

Integrating It All (1/2 hr)

Which Program to use for what

How to get the best results

How to fix problems

Going Further (1/2 hr)

Design Issues

Common sense tips and tricks

Where to get help

View finished site

Visit www.12go.com.au/class to see the completed site used in the examples

Quick Start Guide

You will need to download either the Class_Instructions_DOC.zip file or the Class_Instructions.pdf. If you download the zip file you will need to unzip it, you can then view it through word. For the pdf you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Either follow the instructions using your own images OR you can download the images from this site (the images are in their large format so it might take a while).

If you find yourself getting stuck you can always download the zip files of our completed files to see what we did. These have been grouped into the Photoshop files, The site itself, and the Animation. Visit www.12go.com.au/class to see the finished site.

Good luck and if you get lost you can always visit the discussion board and ask for help.