Your Assignment

Your job is to go online and search out at least three sites that will teach you about "good design". Find out exactly what makes a good website, what colors go together and what don't, what happens when a site becomes too crowded, what happens when a site is too sparse.

Review each site and create links to them in your new design document. In order to create a link to an outside web site, first find the address of the site you like and copy it:

Now type the link the way you would like it to be displayed on the page. In my case, I typed: Jacob Nielson's Guide to Writing for the Web. Then:

1. Select the text you want to serve as the link
2. Paste the web site address in the Link box

Now let's get the link to open in a NEW window! It's easy to do with Dreamweaver.... With the link still selected, select _blank from the Target drop down list:

If you look at the Code View... you will see how Dreamweaver has created the link for you:

<a href="http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/" target="_blank">Jacob Nielson's Guide to Writing for the Web</a>