| et conditions get tighter, management expect staff | | | | which code the HTML for you. The user gets to use |
| to become more multi-skilled. Often marketing and | | | | an easy menu system whilst the software does the |
| administration staff are tasked with the job of | | | | dirty work and codes the HTML. There are many |
| building or at least maintaining the company's website, | | | | different HTML editors such as Microsoft's FrontPage |
| a daunting task for someone with little or no Web | | | | and Web Expressions, however the World's leading |
| development experience. So let's have a look at | | | | program and the program most Web professionals |
| what is involved with building and maintaining a | | | | use is Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is a very |
| website. | | | | user-friendly program that users can learn, by |
| Most websites are built using code called HTML | | | | attending a three day class, at an Adobe Authorized |
| (Hyper Text Markup Language), this code is then | | | | Training Center. |
| interpretated by a browser such as Internet Explorer, | | | | Dreamweaver also allows users to add CSS to |
| Firefox or Safari, and displayed as a Web page. | | | | format and layout their Web pages as well as other |
| The first way to build a website is to learn how to | | | | interactive elements such as Javascript drop down |
| hand code HTML web pages. HTML is actually a fairly | | | | menus and more. So by learning an HTML editor, in as |
| easy computer language to learn, however there are | | | | little as 3 days, you can get up to speed with building |
| thousands of different HTML tags, and it would take | | | | or maintaining a professional looking website. |
| a beginner quite some time to learn and master | | | | Dreamweaver costs around $399 so it is relatively |
| these before been able to build an entire website. | | | | inexpensive, especially when you consider the |
| Apart from the steep learning curve another potential | | | | amount of development time it can save, or how |
| problem with this method is that it is very time | | | | much it would cost to outsource your Web |
| consuming to hand code an entire website. In recent | | | | development. |
| years CSS or Cascading Style sheets has become | | | | On a side note Dreamweaver, also allows users to |
| the accepted way to format and layout Web pages, | | | | manually edit HTML code. This feature is called |
| so apart for learning the HTML language Web | | | | round-trip html editing and experienced Web |
| designers also need to learn CSS, as each Web page | | | | developers love the ability to edit the HTML code |
| is a combination of HTML and CSS. | | | | manually, whilst still taking advantage of |
| The next method to build a website is to use an | | | | Dreamweaver's rapid development environment. |
| HTML editor. HTML editors are software programs | | | | |