BP_14 Dreamweaver Journey Part 3

Okay so I am getting the hang of what this CSS is all about! I actually learned a cool and interesting tool on making links standout with their own little background.  I've always wondered how people were able to do that.  I am hoping in the tutorials to follow it will teach me how to make my background transparent so that I can have a logo as wallpaper and still view the words well.

My attempt after watching the tutorial

I am excited about all the things that CSS can do as opposed to just modifying a page's properties.  What a difference one tutorial makes.  I am looking forward to learning more tools.  Off to my next tutorial.  Hopefully soon I can post a finished website after completing all the tutorials! I love lynda.com wish I would have known about this before!

BP_13 Dreamweaver Journey Part 2

So now I am on to learning about CSS styles this part is a bit more complicated but the beauty of Dreamweaver is that it takes care of the styles for you.  The main issue is how I want to have everything set up so that when i change something in my CSS that it changes across the site.  I might have to look at this chapter a few times to understand what it is exactly.

Next up is how to actually design the pages. I will come back to the CSS a little later. I'll let you know when I am ready to focus on this part.

BP_12 My Journey with Dreamweaver

So for this project the tool I want to learn more about is Dreamweaver.  I think that Dreamweaver can 
be a very useful tool.  This can help me with my business and also with my teaching.   I have learned HTML in the past but haven't become fully proficient in designing websites.  So to start off I am using the tutorial on Lynda.  The first over view lessons are great in helping me plan out and decide what I want my site to look like.  It is very helpful to see this as a brainstorming web.  


My biggest struggle is understanding pixels and making sure that the site is easy to navigate. The Lynda.com tutorial helps break down the components of a page on he site you are trying to build to make sure it's appealing to the eye: Defines where you are, Clear and consistent navigation, hierarchy of info, visually different links and legible body copy that is not too long.

Time to map out my site before moving on to the next set of tutorials.