ABT 294 - Website Design & Maintenance

Most Common Issues

Hyperlinks giving 404 error (file does not exist)

  1. When a link is outside of your root directory it will result in a 404 broken link error.
    This is evidenced by a link (to a .css, .htm, .jpn, .png or any other file type) prefaced with file:/// or file:\\\
    For example: file:\\\H:\abt294\JuliaG\acupunc\css\style.css

  2. When you link to a folder and there is not index.htm (or default.htm) file in that folder
    You must name your homepage index.htm (index.html or default.html will also work) in order for the server to know to parse this page from the directory.

  3. When you do not upload (synchronized) files to the correct folder on the server. This is evidenced by undesired "nesting" and/or duplicationor folders. Look at the settings in Site > Manage Sites for the website you are working on. Ensure local folder matches the server root directory (in server settings).

Adobe Guides

  1. Dreamweaver User Guide
  2. Photoshop User Guide
  3. Adobe Support Community

Course How To

Turn on date/time stamps in DW Files panel

Rick-click on the blank area in the Files panel, above where files are shown and select modified

Remove a file from the Web Server in DW Files Panel

Switch to Remote view, then right-click on the file to remove, Edit then Delete

Add structural HTML elements using the DOM pane in DW

Click on the plus in the DOM to add a child of body, then insert header main and footer as elements. Nest three secions in the header (right-click insert child).

Copy/Paste attribution Text from Unsplash

Copy the HTML attribution code from unsplash after you download the image, then paste it in your HTML document.