Introduction… 8
Who is this book for?… 8
Why Dreamweaver CS3 instead of…?… 8
I. The preliminaries
Get online!—$7-$399 a month… 11
Subscribe to DealNews eNewsletter—Free… 12
Get virus protection software and a firewall —
$50-$70… 12
Buy a name on the Internet — $10/year… 13
Buy Dreamweaver CS3—$395-$399… 14
Select a host for your website — approx.
$25/month… 14
II. What type of website will work best for you?
How to design a website that SELLS… 16
1. Are you selling 1 or 2 products? The 1-Page Mini-Site… 16
2. Are you selling lots of products? The Catalog Site… 17
3. Are you selling professional services or promoting an idea?… 18
Plan, draw it out, map it out… 19
III. Getting started
Opening Dreamweaver CS3®… 21
First site… 22
Create a website folder… 25
Congratulations!… 28
IV. Setting up Dreamweaver to preview in browsers… 29
Where’s Internet Explorer?… 35
V. The One-Page Mini-Site
If you don’t need more than one page… 36
Definition of Palettes… 42
The Insert Bar… 42
The Properties Inspector… 43
Show as Menu, Show as Tabs… 43
Add sidebar type… 49
The <br> command / show or hide invisible elements… 52
Save your file… 53
Change type size… 53
Add your body type… 54
Save your file… 56
Options—Changing typeface… 56
Preview your page in a browser… 57
Congratulations!… 60
VI. Building a multi-page site
Create your first document… 61
Planning… 62
The <br> command / show or hide invisible elements… 72
Add your navigation… 73
Start here for horizontal navigation… 74
Start here for vertical navigation… 75
Continuation for both horizontal and vertical navigation… 77
Submenus… 80
Editing your menu style… 83
Resizing the menu type… 86
Another note about the palettes… 86
Change menu font… 87
Changing the menu width… 88
Changing menu colors… 90
So, Congratulations!… 95
VII. Fixes, patches, miscellaneous… 96
Add/Remove Netscape 4 Resize Fix… 96
Dreamweaver CS3® builds style sheets as you go… 97
You’re ready to build… 99
VIII. Build and assemble your website
Using templates… 100
What is a Dreamweaver template?… 100
Creating a template… 101
Creating a file from a template… 104
Duplicating files in the Files palette… 106
Check your site layout… 107
Put your content on your pages… 108
IX. eCommerce
Beware of "Shopping Carts"… 109
ClickBank.com: Easy solutions for electronically
delivered products… 109
2checkout.com: Sell "nearly anything"… 110
Get started with PayPal and Google CheckOut—for free!… 110
Get the best of both: Mercantec… 112
Shopping Cart vs. Order Form vs. Buy Now… 112
Basic signup preferences… 112
Entering your items… 114
Sales pages for your "Shopping Cart"… 117
Creating your buttons… 118
Mini-Cart display… 122
Order Form… 131
Buy Now buttons… 134
Adjust your template file… 135
Add copy… 139
Other alternatives—VeriSign, Authorize.net, etc.… 139
X. Publish Your Site… 141
Change your password… 141
Entering remote site information in Dreamweaver… 143
"Putting" your site… 145
Congratulations!… 145
Pointing your Domain Name Servers… 146
Contact!… 148
Appendix A: Images… 149
Appendix B: Extensions… 154
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