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Tutorial – Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
Introduction
In your work at Rutgers, you may want at some point to publish your own web page
or site, either for a class or personal use. One of the most widely-used and versatile
programs for creating web pages today is Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004. This
is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) program, so you don't need any
previous knowledge of HTML hand-coding for creating a web page. Dreamweaver MX
2004 allows you to create and edit web pages and sites in a graphical user interface,
so you are able to see changes to your work as you make them. This tutorial will
walk you through many aspects of Dreamweaver MX 2004, from creating a new
document, to publishing it on your RCI space.
Setting Up Your RCI Account
If you have not yet established an account on an ICI (Instructional Computing
Initiative) server at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, called "RCI", you will need
to do so ASAP. All Rutgers employees are eligible for an account.
Just visit the URL below, read the "Acceptable Use Policy" guidelines, then go to the
bottom and click on the "Accept" button. A form will appear on your screen. Fill in
the form, click "Create Account," and in 15 minutes you will have a new "RCI"
account.
Start here to establish your RCI account:
https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/rats/rats.cgi
Setting Up Your public_html Folder
Once you have an RCI account, you will need to establish a folder (or "directory") to
which you can publish your web pages. This is called a "public_html" directory. You
also need to change the permissions (a type of setting) of that directory to make it
available to the public (so that anyone can read but not write to what you post
there). To set up this “public_html” directory, please read the appropriate tutorial; it
will walk you through all of the steps in creating your “public_html” tutorial on any
Rutgers University computer.
Opening Dreamweaver MX 2004
To start working with Dreamweaver MX 2004, you will need to open the program.
Some campus computer labs are equipped with this program on its computers, and it
can also be found on all Computer Classroom computers. You can open it by clicking
on the "Start" button located in the bottom left corner of your screen. Then, navigate
to the "Programs,” and then to the “Macromedia” folder. From there, select
“Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004.” Please note that many computers at Rutgers
labs may have multiple, older versions of Dreamweaver installed, and all may be
listed in the “Start” menu. Make sure you open Dreamweaver MX 2004, the most
recent version of the program.