Tutorial - Creating Electronic Portfolios using Dreamweaver MX

Using This Tutorial
This tutorial is designed to introduce participants to some of the formatting features of Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX, a web design tool used to create and manage Web sites and pages. You and your students create an electronic portfolio while working through this tutorial.

For the purpose of this tutorial, a minimum of 4 items, preferably some text (such as essays and research) and some other media, (graphics or video) would be a good starting point.

Completing the Activities
While completing the ten activities, if your learning style is such that you like to follow along with a printed copy next to your computer, send this document to the printer. If you are comfortable with switching between applications on your computer, open this tutorial in your favourite browser and open Macromedia's Dreamweaver to work through the examples.

Using Dreamweaver
Very few prerequisites are needed to begin creating your electronic portfolio. You and your students should already be familiar with the following concepts:
word processing basics, Internet navigation, procedures for saving files to students' home directories, and vocabulary common to computer file management.

When You're Done
At the completion of this tutorial, you will have created an electronic portfolio that can be published on the World Wide Web or shared within your school on your school's network.
If you plan to publish your work on the Internet, please be aware of The Greater Essex County District School Board's School Webpage Policy.

The web authoring component of this project consists of the following activities:

Activity 1 Planning Your Portfolio
Approximate time to complete 20-30 minutes.

Activity 2 Overview of Dreamweaver
Approximate time to complete 15 minutes.

Activity 3 Preparing to Make a Web Site
Approximate time to complete 10 minutes.

Activity 4 Creating the Home Page
Approximate time to complete 20-30 minutes.

Activity 5 Creating Content Pages
Approximate time to complete 30-40 minutes.

Activity 6 Copy a Table to Other Content Pages
Approximate time to complete 20-30 minutes.

Activity 7 Adding Previously Created Text
Approximate time to complete 20-30 minutes.

Activity 8 Inserting an Image
Approximate time to complete 20 minutes.

Activity 9 Linking Pages
Part One - Create Links on the Home Page - Approximate time to complete 20 minutes.
Part Two - Create Links on the Content Pages - Approximate time to complete 20 minutes.