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Project Meeting The more pages you add to a site, the more
I already created the pages for our site, but I
client comments don’t know what links to use, and I’m not sure art director comments complex it becomes, until it’s almost impossible
to make sense of what you have and where it
how to create them. I’ve also heard that there
is located. Web sites — even those with only
are certain things you should do to improve a
a few pages — should be designed with a
site’s search engine rating — which is obviously
good organizational plan, making it easier to
important for a small business like mine.
modify pages later.
Once you have a handle on the organization,
make sure the pages link to each other
properly. Visitors get frustrated very quickly
when they’re forced to return to the home page
every time they want to jump to a different set
of pages.
The last thing you should do is add page
titles and change file names to give a better
indication of what’s on each page. Doing so
will make the site more accessible to people
with screen-reader software, and it will also
improve the site’s ratings on search engines.
project objectives To complete this project, you will:
o Create a Dreamweaver site definition
o Create new folders within the site
root folder
o Use various methods to move files from
one place to another within the site
o Create links between pages using several
techniques available in Dreamweaver
o Differentiate between relative and
absolute links
o Copy and paste links from one page to
another
o Improve searchability and usability using
page names and titles
o Cloak site files to hide them from the
Web server
o Upload the site files to a server so they can
be viewed online

