Dreamweaver MX Creating a Shortcut Page

 

Since you will be recreating this page many times, let's make a shortcut for ourselves

 

As you can see (below), the document is untitled

Dreamweaver also includes the folder and file name for the document (in parentheses)

The asterisk (*) means the document has unsaved changes

 

First, give the document a title (type in the Title text box and hit Return)

The title appears at the top of the document window

Save your file now (notice that the asterisk is no longer in the title bar)

Don't close the window yet

 

You know that Command-S (the Command key is the Apple key) is the shortcut for Save

The next shortcut you should learn is Shift-Command-S for Save As...

Use the Save As... command to save your index.html file as something else

 

Notice how the Save As dialog box opens with just the word index highlighted

Dreamweaver knows we're going to change this part of the file's name

 

Type 00 (two zeros) and hit return (or click on save)

 

We don't want the rest of of our pages titled Welcome to My Website! so change the title, hit return, and save the file so it looks like the one below

Close the window (Command-W)

 

Open the Site Window (the shortcut is the F8 key, remember?)

You now have two pages

 

So far so good

 

Next up: Adding Text

 

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