Publishing your website to the internet

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Course contents
SECTION: 2
Building our first mobile friendly web page 21:02
SECTION: 4
Creating the content for our website 41:11
SECTION: 5
Publishing 4:59
SECTION: 6
Conclusion 4:12
SECTION: 7
Cheat sheet & shortcuts 14:54

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Course info

13 lessons / 2 hours

Overview

Do you want to earn more as a designer? Then stop telling everyone you’re ‘a designer, not a coder!’ It’s time you stopped missing out on a huge chunk of the income surrounding web design. If you’re a freelance, it’s time you stopped having to navigate the waters of finding and working with a coder. If you’re on staff, wouldn’t you like to be worth a lot more, and paid accordingly, because you bring more value to the company?

So before you start excusing yourself as a ‘visual’ kind of person, how about using Adobe Dreamweaver 2017 to learn, develop and deploy code within your web designs. You already know a lot about Dreamweaver, so I’d like to show you how to use the other half that you sometimes ignore because it’s hidden from view.

I’m Dan, a very experienced designer and teacher. I know design and code from years of work in the trenches as a freelance. I know how to get you to do it because I’ve spent the last few years teaching people just like you, with no previous knowledge, how to code.

You’ll learn by creating a portfolio website with the layout, graphics and code you need to sell your new skills. Or, finish your own website. To real world standards.

The new Dreamweaver 2017 has been specially redesigned to make code easier to see, easier to work with, and most importantly, easier to understand. And being an Adobe Certified Expert, I know what you can do with the new tools. I know exactly how to get you up to speed with enjoyable hands-on training that shows you how to use code and Dreamweaver 2017 the way they work best. Together.

If you’re a designer working on websites, it’s time you gained the other half of the skills it takes to get your designs online and working properly – without being at the mercy of someone else.

Upskill, take control, and create a lifelong foundation in understanding and creating code. You’ll not only be better as a designer; you’ll be far more valuable to your clients or employers.

It’s time you stopped avoiding half of your potential. It’s time you made yourself more in demand. It’s time you let me teach you code, from a designer’s perspective, with Dreamweaver 2017. Contact me now, and I’ll take you from zero to hero.

What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Dreamweaver CC 2017 or above. A free trial can be download from Adobe here.

  • No previous Dreamweaver or web design experience is necessary.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 13 lectures 2 Hours 11 minutes of content!

  • You'll learn to build a portfolio website.

  • Download exercise files & cheat sheet.

  • Create mobile, tablet & desktop versions of the website.

  • Build a responsive navigation with burger menu.

  • How to get the most from your portfolio Images.

  • How to use beautiful web fonts in your designs.

  • How to publish your website.

  • How much to charge for your work.

  • How to get paid.

  • Getting up & running your first web job.

  • Forum support from me.

  • All the techniques used by professional website designers.

  • Ways to preview your designs straight to your mobile device.

  • Professional workflows and shortcuts.

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • YES: This course is for beginners. Aimed at people new to the world of web design. No previous Dreamweaver experience is necessary.

  • NO: This course is NOT suited to people experienced in using HTML & CSS.

Course duration 2 hours + your own study.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Great, so we've created a site, now we want to get it online. We're going to use-- we need a host, and a domain name. You generally buy those together. I've got a whole course of my domain names, and hosting. Let's go into the quick version here, to get you going. So, log into your account. I only use 'GoDaddy'. It's the world's biggest, most popular hosting. If you got something else, it's not far off, there'll be slight quirks. 

What we're going to do is, I'm going to log in to my account. Okay, so what I want to do is go to web hosting. We already bought our web hosting, and paid for a domain name. We've got the basic hosting. Hit 'Manage'. Wait for it to load. 

You're looking for this thing, called FTP Accounts, it's our File Transfer Protocols. They tell you how you upload your website to your hosting service. So, to create one, you put it in here, you're going to call this one 'Testing'. You can give it your name. It doesn't really matter. Doesn't have to be an email address, kind of looks like it, but no, you can just make up anything in here. Give it a password.  Make sure it's a really good one, not like my one here; a very simple one. I'm going to go and delete this account, just in case, right after this.  

Now the big thing when you’re using GoDaddy is that-- can you see it? Put in a username here, it's going to make a sub-folder; it’s not what I want. It needs to go into 'public_html' Now, that's kind of a tradition, where things go. Now if you're using somebody else's web hosting, they'll tell you whether it's-- sometimes it has htdocs, and some names, and public, and nearly always though, it has public underscore html 'public_html'. It's like the root of everything that it goes into.   

Click 'Create account'. And the only thing we need to know now is-- well, we need to be using our own username, and our own password. So just jump into Dreamweaver. Let's open up our site, and go to 'Manage Sites'. Here's 'Dans Portfolio'. We made this right at the beginning, right? That's the one where we-- in here, remember we did the local folder on our hard drive, and we told it where the images went.  

Now what we're going to do is go to this one called 'Servers', and then hit '+', and then in here, we're going to call it 'GoDaddy'. It doesn't really matter what you call it in here. FTP, perfect. The FTP address. Now this can-- if you're not using GoDaddy, this can be different. 'Bringyourownlaptop.com'.  

Sometimes, it doesn't need the FTP, for some hosts. In this case it does. Username was '[email protected]'. Now again, sometimes, some hosting just needs the username, they don't need all this junk. Add password, put that in. And now you're going to hit 'Test' and you're going to cross your fingers. Hey, connected successfully. 

Now, that worked for me, because I know what I'm doing. Hosting is by far the hardest bit to get set up. Now, don't be afraid if it's still not working. You've tested it, you've tried the FTP without this username. And, the other things you can try is, down here, the ‘root directory, sometimes you need to put in a public underscore html, forward slash, 'public_html/'. Down here, sometimes, under ‘More Options’, you need to turn off  'Passive FTP'.  There's a few little things you can play around with, but my advice is, don't stress too far, or too long, just email the hosting company. Send them a screenshot of this here, and say, 'This is the details I need. What is it?' And more often than not they send you the details.  

So now, what you do, is hit 'Save', hit 'Done'. Great! Click 'OK'. Great! And, now what you do is you go up to 'Site'. So it's connected now, but nothing's really happened.  You got this thing called 'Local', and you got this other one now, called 'Remote'. And that's what we want. Local's on our machine. Remote is GoDaddy, it's the hosting service. And we go to 'Site', and we go to 'Put'. And, you hit 'Put’. It's going to go through and connect, and then it's going to ask you, 'Would you like to put up the dependent folders?' And you click, 'Yes'. The dependent folders are things like-- it's going to put the html up, but then it needs to put the css up, there's other css, and Javascript. It goes through, and puts up all the images.  

I'm going to hit 'Cancel' in this case. Why? Because at the moment, I'll upload this weird, not weird, but this portfolio over the top of my website 'Bringyourownlaptop.com'. I don't want to do that, but what you do is, let it run through, then you go to 'Bringyourownlaptop.com', or your url, and your portfolio should be there. Now if it doesn't, just drop me a line add in the comments, and I'll give you a hand.  

Definitely, connecting the server up is the hardest bit for anybody, it's even-- it's still hard for me. I hate it when I get a new host, or if I'm using a client's new host, and I have to work out all the different settings. 

All right, that's how to connect a site using GoDaddy, and yes, that will be it for this video. 

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