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Producing a scholarly research report in the form of a web document

Basic steps:

  1. Choose your authoring program (some options are Dreamweaver CS3 or Dreamweaver CS4, Mozilla KompoZer, and HTML-Kit).

  2. Set up directories or folders.

    Place exported graphics (GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs, PDFs) into a Graphics folder; place CSS files into a folder called CSS; HTMLs outside of it.

    This file structure aids the browser in quickly displaying the file, and allows Dreamweaver to link relative to the document.

  3. Create a new page. Decide whether to use internal or external style sheets.

    articles from Adobe:
    Creating pages with CSS
    Format pages quickly with CSS
    Formatting your page with CSS

  4. Set up your page and type attributes (recommendations: 780 pixel page width; sans serif paragraph style and sans serif H1, H2, H3, and H4 headings).

  5. Save the page and transfer it to the hosting server (in this case, the UA's server in the folder assigned by Douglas Starkey).

  6. View the page in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari, if possible.

  7. Make adjustments and use the new page to create more pages.