I want to create a new page via Dreamweaver. Where do I start?

1. Open Dreamweaver on your computer.
2. Open the "local view" of your website.
3. Open a page that you would like your new page to look like. Click "File" in the upper left-hand corner of your screen and click "Save as."
4. You will save the page to your local website folder in the "My Documents" folder on your computer. Name the page one or two words, all lowercase. If the page title is two words, please separate the words with hyphens instead of spaces or underlines (e.g. faculty-accomplishments, student-resources, our-mission). Once you've named the page, click "OK."
5. Go back to the "local view" of your website on your computer. When the new page you created appears, click on the page title and click on the "check in" button with the lock.
6. You have created a new page, but the page is not visible to your website's user until you create a link to it from either your website's navigation or from the content within your website. Learn more about creating links.
7. Your new page will appear as an exact duplicate of the page you copied. The other page still exists exactly as it was and your new page is now titled whatever you named it. Proceed with deleting the old content from the page and replacing it with the new content. If you are copying and pasting content that you have already written in a Microsoft Word document, save your Microsoft Word document as "plain text," close the document, and then re-open it and then copy the content into your website. This is one of the most important rules to remember whne adding content to your website. If you do not do this, you will bring HTML coding from your Microsoft Word document into your website, which will make editing your website extremely difficult.

How do I change the fonts on my new page?

1. Once you've created your new page and added content, highlight the content that needs formatting and right-click. A dropdown menu of options will appear, click "Paragraph format."
2. All of the fonts that you need for your website have been pre-programmed into your website template. In the dropdown menu, there are listings for headings on your page in the order of importance that they should be presented. For example, Heading 1 should always be at the top of your web page as it is the largest font setting and thus should identify the most important content. Heading 2 is for identifying the second most important content on a page and so on and so forth. When you want text to be a normal paragraph font, set the font to "Paragraph," which is the default setting.

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