Introduction | Opening the Program | Different Views | Program Layout | Panels: 1 - 2
The Insert Bar: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 | Creating a New Page | Opening a Page | Multiple Pages with Similar Styles
Page Properties | Text & Text Properties | Checking Spelling | Style Sheets: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
Tables: 1 - 2 - 3 | Images: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 | Links: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
Publishing: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 | Templates: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 | Collaboration: 1 - 2 - 3
Outside References

Introduction
In your work at Rutgers, you may want at some point to publish your own web page or site, either for a class or personal use. One of the most widely-used and versatile programs for creating web pages today is Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004. This is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) program, so you don't need any previous knowledge of HTML hand-coding for creating a web page. Dreamweaver MX 2004 allows you to create and edit web pages and sites in a graphical user interface, so you are able to see changes to your work as you make them. This tutorial will walk you through many aspects of Dreamweaver MX 2004, from creating a new document, to publishing it on your RCI space.

Setting Up Your RCI Account
If you have not yet established an account on an ICI (Instructional Computing Initiative) server at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, called "RCI", you will need to do so ASAP. All Rutgers employees are eligible for an account.

Just visit the URL below, read the "Acceptable Use Policy" guidelines, then go to the bottom and click on the "Accept" button. A form will appear on your screen. Fill in the form, press "Create Account," and in 15 minutes you will have a new "RCI" account.

Start here to establish your RCI account:
https://www.rci.rutgers.edu/rats/rats.cgi

Setting Up Your public_html Folder
Once you have an RCI account, you will need to establish a folder (or "directory") to which you can publish your web pages. This is called a "public_html" directory. You also need to change the permissions (a type of setting) of that directory to make it available to the public (so that anyone can read but not write to what you post there). To set up this “public_html” directory, please read the appropriate tutorial; it will walk you through all of the steps in creating your “public_html” tutorial on any Rutgers University computer.

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