I am a learner. I have loaded my site and the home page is blank. In the browser to test everything is fine but my home page comes up with www.hislife.co.uk/templates/home%20page%201.dwt
Can somebody help me to sort out this problem?

Many thanks,
Learner

Originally Posted by Learner

]www.hislife.co.uk/templates/home%20page%201.dwt

.dwt is a dreamweaver template, not a webpage

you could try changing the extension (.dwt) to .html

or a quick fix would be to, in 'home%20page%201.dwt': edit -> select all -> copy

open a new, blank page in dreamweaver and edit -> paste

save as: home-page-1.html (dont put spaces in filenames!), or better yet index.html

upload page to your server

make sense?

Hi Learner,

Happy learning with dreamweaver! It is the best tool for web development out there!

Coming to your question, you seem to be wondering about the %20 in your URL (see it between the 'home' and 'page' words). %20 just means a space in URL encoding (the browser doesn't allow spaces and special characters in the URL so if it finds any it encodes them as a percent sign followed by a number). Just remove the spaces in your file name and it will not appear.

Learn how to publish your website online by reading our simple tutorial on it at http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_d..._your_site.asp.

Apart from these you need to correct the extension of your web page. You seemed to have made a web page and have saved it as a dreamweaver template (.dwt) file instead of a HTML or HTM file. To know exactly what the dreamweaver template does and how it works and helps you maintain your website read our popular tutorial that teaches you all about it at http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_d...r_template.asp. Since you are a beginner we recommend all our other interesting tutorials on using dreamweaver too. Do drop us a line if they help you out!

Happy Learning!

I now want to type out a book (about 170 pages). I do not have Adobe Writer, can I type it into a Word document and then place the file onto Dreamweaver?

Your advice please

Thanks
Learner

Hi Learner,

Yes you can type it out in word and then copy paste it into your HTML pages in Dreamweaver. However you might need to check if there are unnecessary font tags created by Word in your code, and use one common style for the body tag for the text to appear uniformly. Also you should use h1, h2, h3 in your word document for headings and then in Dreamweaver use CSS Styles to predefine the color and size for these heading tags. That way you will have less work after pasting the text into Dreamweaver.

Hope this helps!

Thank you very much for your help. It is much appreciated.

Hi,

I want to develop a new site using Dreamweaver. However, I would like to include either a "Forum" or "Blog" on the site. Do I now need to purchase software and have this imported into the new site. Can someone please give me some advice please!!

Learner

phpBB is a free forum software, and the MySQL backend database you'd need for it is also free.