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Additionally, the process of testing the visual design components to verify that what you’re

envisioning will work technically in a Web page should be done throughout this stage.

Effective Web design relies on creating visual concepts that can be translated to the fully

functional technical aspects of a site. The more you learn about what is possible in a

Website, the better equipped you’ll be to design efﬁciently for the online medium. You’ll

learn throughout this book about many technical Web features that Dreamweaver can

help you create.

A style guide containing speciﬁc details on the look and feel, appearance, colors, and styles

to be used throughout the site is usually created at this stage as well.

During the creation of a Website, there is often a considerable amount of overlap of the

development phases—work in each of the phases often occurs concurrently. Although you’ll

address some of the concepts from Phase 2 in the next several lessons, the production stage

of Phase 3 is the one in which you’ll be working primarily throughout this book’s lessons.

Now that you understand what is involved in the preproduction stages of Phases 1 and 2—

all of which has already been done for the project site—you’re ready to begin working on

re-creating portions of the “Yoga Sangha” project site with Dreamweaver. As you work

on the project site throughout the book, you’ll learn how to implement the site through

Dreamweaver by creating the HTML that brings all the research, content, and design

together within a successful Website.

Phase 4: Testing

Once you have ﬁnished designing your Website, it is important to test it, before you

release it to the intended audience. Even the simplest of Websites should be tested in every

conceivable way. For example, you should test your Website with as many popular browsers

as possible. Although Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows is the most common

browser today, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari maintain a large enough share of the

market to be considered. Even with a browser such as Internet Explorer, there are major

differences between versions 5, 5.5, and 6; never mind the differences between the Windows

and Macintosh versions. Besides the way that different browsers render your pages, you

should also make sure to test every page and link. Dreamweaver 8 can help with these

postproduction tasks, as you will see later in Lesson 14.

Phase 5: Maintenance

Many We bsite developers ﬁnd that a Website is never done. Adding pages, updating links,

modifying content and replacing images are all normal parts of maintaining a Website.

Dreamweaver 8 offers a number of features to help make the process of maintaining a

Website painless with Library items, templates and other tools. You will learn more about

these features in Lessons 13 through 16.

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