Last week, many of you had a chance to poke around in Dreamweaver.  For today’s tech task, we’ll jump back in.

• Set up your site in Dreamweaver (go to Site > New Sites).  You’ll need to create a new folder on the desktop (or on your USB drive, if it will let you).  All of the files for your website will go in this folder; this includes images, web page files ending in .html, and any external style sheets (CSS files) you choose to use.

• Create a new web page for your site.  I recommend choosing one of the templates to work from (some of you experimented with these last week).  Alternately, you can try downloading a free CSS template from a site like this.  Either way, choose a design that you think will work well for the project you have in mind.

• Once you’ve completed the tasks above, you can begin customizing your page.  You might try adding an image (here’s a sample image, taken from flickr), adding your own content (even if it is just placeholder content for now), adding links, and so on.

• Be sure to save your work to your USB drive before leaving the lab.  Make sure you save/copy the web folder you created and all of its contents.