Web Support - BU Office of Technology

Web Design
Training & Support

Faculty/Staff Training Home

Dreamweaver

Scroll down this page and view the Dreamweaver tutorial section.

Helpful Web Links/ Tutorials

BU Publications Guide

Tutorials by W3C Schools

Basic Web Design Tutorial

MAC Support

MAC Assistance

Before you start...

Student web pages - Students automatically have 100mb of space to build a student website. Visit the student web support page at http://ot.bloomu.edu/Student/myweb.php for instruction. The remainder of this support page relates to faculty or staff sites.

Requests by Faculty or Staff must be made by entering a help desk ticket. Fill in your contact info.

Under the Ticket Information tab choose:
Problem Type - Web Related Issues
Category - Indicate Fac/Staff (faculty or staff), Departmental or Organizational Website (dependent on which type of web you are building)
Symptom - Request New Website

Note: If you plan to have a student assist you with your web, YOU (faculty or staff) must enter the ticket. Students are not able to enter help desk tickets.

You will be notified once your account is ready, you will use your Active Directory user name and password. (The same user name and password you use to log onto your office computer.)

FTP access is permitted on the server. Please view the Publishing documents on the righthand side of this page.

What will your web address be?

Facstaff web pages will be http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/{username}
Departmental web pages will be http://departments.bloomu.edu/{name}
Organization pages will be http://organizations.bloomu.edu/{name}

Dreamweaver


	Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 can provide you with countless tools to create a professional looking web site. The tutorials below demonstrate some of the basic features available in Dreamweaver 8.

Resource Documents (PDF Format)

First Steps to Web Design at BU - Read This!

Set up Your Site / Folder Structure

Reference Guide

Editing and Publishing Files

Resizing Photos Prior to Posting on the Web

Image Editing using Dreamweaver - Steps to edit photos directly within Dreamweaver. No need to use other software. Make certain if you use this method that you use a copy of an image - not the original!

Image Editing using Photoshop

Image Editing using Microsoft Picture Manager

Templates

Understanding and Creating a Template

Creating a Template from a Starter Page

Pre-Built Templates (Zip Files you may customize)

Instructions for CSS Template

Zip Files-CSS Template

Instructions for HTML Template

Zip Files-HTML

Contact Form (Instructions and Zip Files you may customize)

Instructions for Contact Form

Zip Files-Form

Using Flash Text and Flash Buttons

Inserting Flash Text and Buttons into your web page

Example - Flash Text/Buttons

Build an interactive slide show using Flash Image Viewer

Problems publishing your webpages? Receiving FTP Errors?

We've been having some difficulty with this current version of Dreamweaver in that it may not hold your logon and password information. If you have previously set your site up, and are still having problems, click Site > Manage Sites > Highlight your site name and click Edit. Choose the Remote Info tab under Categories. Enter your Logon and Password. Be sure to Test your connection while on that page.

If you have followed the steps above and are still having FTP problems, please enter a help desk ticket for assistance.