Web Page Tips: Creating New Web Pages
Although your Website has been converted, you will find that you may need to create new Web pages for your site. It may seem conventional to open a page, change the content and save it as a new name, but this practice has led to many Web page problems because certain important aspects have been overlooked.
Creating Web pages in Dreamweaver is easy. Simply go to the top left corner of the page in Dreamweaver, and under File select New.
You will see two tabs, General and Templates. Select Templates.
In the Site window, you will see the name of your template(s), which is more than likely named secondary or main.
Select the template and click the Create button located in the lower right corner of the window.
You will then see a blank page that has all the navigation of your Web pages but no content in the title, body, or header.
The first thing you will need to do is give the page an appropriate header and title. It is best to use the same terminology that you would link to the page with, so as not to confuse your users when they view the page. If the link to the page will say, “Graduate Admission Policies,” the header, which is the big red text at the top of the page, should also be “Graduate Admission Policies”or something similar indicating the content on the page.
The title of the page should be the same as the header. At the top of the page in Dreamweaver you will see a box that says Title. In that box will be the name of your department/school followed by a colon or dash.
Simply place the information in the header, after the colon in the title, so it would read something like Graduate School: Graduate Admission Policies.
The information in this field is what shows up at the top of your Web browser and is one of the first things search engines scan.
Once you have the page created, be sure to save the page in an appropriate location or folder. Secondary pages should not be saved in the root of your Website.
It is best to name the file something similar to the title of the page.
To avoid problems, use lower case when naming the file and do not use spaces.
If your file has multiple words, use a hyphen to separate the two, instead of an underscore.
It also is best to save as .html instead of .htm, i.e. grad-admin-policies.html. If you have files that are .htm, there is no need to convert or rename them, but going forward, always use .html.
If you have any questions or need assistance creating Web pages or managing files, email the Web Office.