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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
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