Open and save a new page

After setting up a site, you can create web pages to populate it.

If you're creating your own pages from scratch, you can use the Dreamweaver start page to create a new page, or you can select File > New to choose from a wider range of predesigned page layouts.

This tutorial, however, assumes that you're using the layout.html page design provided as part of the Dreamweaver sample content.

To open a page:

1. In the Files panel, expand the 1-Design folder and double-click the layout.html file.

   The layout.html page appears in a new Document window. The page is filled with placeholder "Lorem ipsum" text to show how the page design will look when text is added to it.

   
   
   

2. Save the page with a new filename.

To save your page:

1. Select File > Save As.
2. In the Save As dialog box, browse to and open the 1-Design folder inside the site's local root folder.

   Reminder: the local root folder is the folder you created when you set up the site in Define a local folder using the Site Definition Wizard.

3. Enter the filename index.html.
4. Click Save to save the file in the 1-Design folder.

   The filename now appears in the title bar of the window, in parentheses, after the words "Untitled Document."