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Dr. Luanne Eris Fose Revised July 30, 2004
SAVING YOUR WORK:
Before we make any more changes to the page, let’s save the file with a new name – we are
going to call it index.html. A web page with this name has special significance. Most web
servers recognize the index.html page as the default home page of a site. If you type the URL
http://www.calpoly.edu
. This routine is a standard on all UNIX-
based servers and many web administrators (even though they use Windows-based servers),
change their settings to incorporate index.html as the default home page. Therefore, if you
name the opening page of your web site with the file name index.html, the web server will
automatically open this file and you will save people from having to type a longer URL.
You should periodically save your work as you are working on a web page to make sure that
nothing happens to it (e.g., power outage, software or hardware crash, etc.). Save your work
right now by selecting Save As… from the File menu and let’s rename the file and call it
index.html. Check the location to make sure it is being saved to the proper folder (i.e., My
Documents>Class Materials>Dreamweaver MX 102-LFose>mx2004_website) and then
click on the Save button. In the future when you wish to save the file, you can always just
select Save from the File menu (or Ctrl-S) since you have named the file and selected a
location; however, to be sure that it is truly being saved, using the Save As… command is a
safer way to save. The next time you use the Save As… command and click the Save button,
Dreamweaver will ask if you want to overwrite the file; when this happens, click Yes.
Working with the CP Template Web Pages
Let’s change some of the text on the Cal Poly template that we have saved as index.html:
1. Your index.html page should be open since you just saved it with that name, but if it
isn’t, double-click on index.html in the Files Panel Group.
2. Highlight the text for “Department Name” at the top-right area of the web page and
press the Backspace key to delete it.
3. Type “Homer J. Simpson”.
4. Go to the bottom-right area of the web page and change the Department Name to the
“Materials Engineering Department.”
5. Change the phone number from 805.756.XXXX to 805.756.7360.
6. Click on the text where it says
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