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Asked: 2026-05-19T23:19:57+00:00

I have to come up with some good looking webpages for my professor which

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I have to come up with some good looking webpages for my professor which will include pages for topics like research work, current students, alumni, paper published, etc.

Can someone please help me by leading me to some good tutorial in website development ? I have planned to use Adobe Dreamweaver for this ? Is this a good software to start with as i have no prior experience with website development or creating webpages.

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    Dreamweaver will be hard to learn if you cannot pick up the tools properly, because if you are not using the tools within Dreamweaver you might as well use a different text editor with syntax highlighting :

    • Notepad (or Notepad++)
    • Vim/Emacs
    • Coda

    Along with a ftp and a local server to test (XAMPP/IIS) your webpages before displaying it to the public.

    University webpages are very simple and not very heavy on design (at least from what I have seen).

    So you are really only going to need to know what the following mean

    • <html>
    • <body>
    • <head>
    • <meta>
    • <title>
    • <p>
    • <strong>
    • <a>
    • <img>

    and focus on the content being served.

    And this is a bare html file

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
      <title>Test</title>
      <style type="text/css">
      </style>
   </head>
   <body>
   </body>
</html>

    Please do not use w3schools. Use it for a quick reminder every once in a while as to what certain tags do but do not use it for practice.

    So start off with Opera Web Standards Curriculum as said there:

    This is a web standards course
    comprised of several articles, aimed
    at pretty much anyone who wants to
    learn web standards–based web design
    from scratch. It is intended to take
    the reader from nothing more than a
    basic familiarity with browsing the
    web, to being competent with CSS and
    HTML, and have basic knowledge of
    JavaScript and how it fits in to the
    puzzle.

    If you still choose to go the Dreamweaver way here are some supporting articles

    Getting Started with Dreamweaver CS3
    Getting started with Dreamweaver CS4
    Learn Dreamweaver CS5

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