Plan the HTML site application

The website that you are about to create is a plain HTML one. You will not use a server model technology and you will not connect to any database to retrieve information. All the site content will be entered manually in the .html pages.

Before you start building the actual application, there are a few things that you should do:

1. Create a new HTML site in Dreamweaver and make sure it is correctly configured: set the Local Info, Remote Info, and Testing Server options. Do not set a server model because the site you are building will be a plain HTML one.
   Note: Remember that you can create static CSS menus in server model-based pages (.php, .asp, .cfm) as well. To see an example for this situation, check out this tutorial.

2. In order to complete this tutorial, you need nine .html files in the Dreamweaver site. Create them in the site root and name them:

3. • home

   • menus

   • impakt

   • file

   • email

   • login

   • validation

   • ktml

   • company

3. From the \tutorials\HTML site folder in the package, copy the logos folder in the local site root. It contains all the image files (product logos) used in this tutorial.

Note: For more instructions on how to configure your site, consult the Getting started help file. It can be accessed in Dreamweaver from the Help menu, InterAKT -> Getting Started.

Continue with the next topic to build the Dreamweaver template that includes the CSS menu.