It was important that I was familiar with the software we were going to be using before designing the website and putting it into production. Before jumping straight into designing the website we were advised by our teacher to play around with the software and get used to the ‘code,split,design’ features. When a code starts with <html> it means it is a website and <h/tml> closes the code. The main features that I got used to first of all was the code/split/design feature of Adobe Dreamweaver.
The split feature shows you a split version of your publication. The top half shows you the code section of your website and the bottom half shows you what your design actually looks like. This is a really good feature when creating the website because you can see what item on the website refers to in code terms.
The design feature of Adobe Dreamweaver shows you purely the design of your website, this is a much larger screen than the split feature and you can clearly see what your website looks like and it gives you more room to enlarge, resize and change around the component of your web page.
The code section of Adobe Dreamweaver is a preview of purely the code of the webpage and you are unable to see your website design. This is useful when inserting new codes to the webpage becasue you need to see all of the code that your web page consists of. It also makes it easier to scroll through.
A final feature of Adobe Dreamweaver that I played around with was the previewing of the web pages. There is a little icon on the toolbar of Dreamweaver which looks like a globe. A drop-down menu appears and if you click 'Preview in I-Explore' a preview of your web page will pop up in an Internet Explorer format. This is useful because when designing my web page the layout of the page lookes really messy and did not line up. However, when I previewed the page I was able to see what it really looked like in Internet Explorer. I could then go back and move around anything that was out of place or did not line up properly.
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