topic 8 problem Web Page Design The time has come when people need their own Home Page and Web site. Students especially need a Web site so they can record important information and showcase their talents to prospective employers. There are no firm rules as to what goes into a personal Web site, it’s a personal thing. But the look and feel of the first page, the Home Page, says a lot about the owner. Your task this week is to design a layout that would be suitable for use as your Home Page. In creating a design for your Home Page you need to decide how you want it to look. You need to decide the information and images you will present on the first page and how you will provide access to the information underneath. Cathy Freeman Geoff Gallop Tiger Woods John Smith Submission Requirements Submit your Home Page design as a 2 page Word document. • Describe the impression and feeling you want the page to convey. • Describe the design considerations you made to plan these attributes into the Home Page. • Describe the design decisions you have taken and the what led to these decisions • Provide an image of the Home Page design • And list the references used in your research and solution. faculty of communications & creative industries Dreamweaver ® MX 2004 The Document window displays the current document as you create and edit it. This Activity will take you through the steps of how to create a basic webpage using Dreamweaver MX 2004. The Property inspector lets you view and change a variety of properties for the selected object or text. Each kind of object has different properties. Before You Begin Before you start using Dreamweaver MX 2004, you should become familiar with its features. On the Macintosh, Dreamweaver provides a floating workspace layout, in which each document is in its own individual window. Panel groups are initially docked together, but can be undocked into their own windows. Panel groups are sets of related panels grouped together under one heading. To expand a panel group, click the expander arrow at the left of the group's name; to undock a panel group, drag the gripper at the left edge of the group's title bar. 1. Setting up your Webpage