For me, this is the scary stuff. This is where I have to dive into the unknown--website creation in general, and Adobe Dreamweaver, specifically--and splash around until I get something--anything--to work they way I want it to.
I had a teacher once (Nicole) that said something to the effect of "You really can't break anything. Just dig in(to the technology) and see what it does." uh... I prefer the hand-holding, coddling methodology, myself.
Editing images is fun, but trying to do something I've never done before and make it look as fabulous as the vision in my head... a little stressful.
I took inspiration from some coworkers at 3M (I learn a lot when they're on conference calls) and created a "sandbox environment." My website, this honors project, is located at one URL, but I decided to create a second URL to use as a test environment.
Working with dual environments may be a little more work in the sort run, but the last thing I want to do is get part of the website looking all fancy, do something wrong, and have it blow up or disappear. So, I set up an identical project in Dreamweaver and uploaded it to Dreamhost, and now I breathe a little easier.
The upper and lower navigation bars were the only things on the website at that time. Since both nav bars are used site-wide, the first thing I did in the sandbox was to build a CSS file to make them pretty.
I made the nav bar color from copying an eyedropper of color from an image I'm using on the home page, selected a generic font family, for the time being, and played with the size until I figured out how to make it match the width of the page.
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