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Portfolio Project: “A cabin, not a mansion”
Building a Simple Website Using Dreamweaver

All students are asked to produce a fully-functioning, portfolio-ready website using Dreamweaver as discussed in class. As you learn new elements of Dreamweaver, it is expected that you will apply them to your class project website. At the final class, we will share our class projects.

Topic: Choose a personal topic for your website. Examples could be a website about yourself or your family, a site promoting a specific event or business, a fan site, a special-interest site about a hobby or activity, instructions for making or doing something.
You will need at least a few paragraphs of written information to include on the site, as well as some photographs or graphics.

Basic Requirements: Your website must consist of five pages. Possible pages might be:

• About Yourself

• Contact Us

• Home/Welcome page

• Links

• Photo Gallery

• Site map

Dreamweaver Requirements: Your site must include the following Dreamweaver-generated elements. These are minimum requirements, and do not need to appear on every page.

• Cascading Style Sheets

• Form (need not be fully functional)

• Links, relative and absolute, and two external links

• Persistent navigation and consistent design*

• Rollovers

• Tables

• Template or library items

*Design/Navigation: All pages of your site should have a consistent design and persistent navigation (user interface) for your site to be considered complete.

Summary: By the time you have finished creating your website, you will have the skills to produce a fully-functioning website using Dreamweaver. You will have a good working knowledge of the Dreamweaver program and a good framework for learning to apply some of Dreamweaver’s more advanced features.