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Evaluating & Maintaining a Site
Domain 6
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Conduct Technical Tests
• Dreamweaver provides many tools to assist in finalizing and testing your website for publication on the Internet
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Conduct Technical Tests
• One of the first steps in preparing your website for publication is to check the spelling
• Use the Check Spelling command on the Commands menu
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Conduct Technical Tests
• When Dreamweaver finds an unrecognized word from the selected dictionary, the Check Spelling dialog box opens where you can:– Add the word to your personal dictionary– Ignore OR– Change the word for that instance of the word or all
instances of the word
• Dreamweaver provides a list of suggested words to choose from, or you can correct the spelling yourself
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Conduct Technical Tests
• Before publishing a website, it is very important to verify the links works properly
• Dreamweaver provides three different levels for checking links:– In the current document– Portions of the local site– Across the entire site
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Conduct Technical Tests
• To check links in the current document or selected files or folders:– Click File (Drop down menu)– Point to Check Page– Click links
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Conduct Technical Tests
• To check the entire site:– Click the Check links Sitewide command on the
Site menu
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Conduct Technical Tests• When you check the links in the current
document or site, the Link Checker panel opens, above or below the Property Inspector
• You can select a report from the Show pop-up menu:• Broken links• External links• Orphaned files:• Files that exist in the site but are not linked to any
other file
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Conduct Technical Tests
• The External Links report identifies all external links, but does not verify that the links work properly
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Identify Techniques for Basic Usability Tests
• You can perform a usability test used to verify how well your site functions among different users
• You should develop a checklist or script before testing begins to determine what you want to measure
• Next, assemble a diverse group of participants to review your website against the checklist and determine the usability of your site
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Identify Techniques for Basic Usability Tests
• Usability.gov– Federal site the provides a guide to assist in the
process– You can find a wide range of templates that are in
the public domain and available to be used and modified as you see fit for any of your projects
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Identify Methods forCollecting Site Feedback
• Once your website is published, you may choose to receive feedback from actual visitors to your site by asking them to complete a brief survey before they leave the site
• You can create a pop-up box that appears when the user enters the site, prompting them to choose whether they would be interested in answering some questions about their experience
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Identify Methods forCollecting Site Feedback
• Surveys are often also requested after an individual has made a purchase at a commerce website
• The actual survey is created as a form, and the data submitted to a database where the responses can be analyzed
• You can also create an e-mail link for those visitors who wish to leave a comment about your site
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Identify Methods forCollecting Site Feedback
• You can also gather site feedback without visitors even knowing it
• Services are available for purchase that will proactively monitor your website to report on broken links and digital assets that may not be tagged correctly
• Assets that are tagged correctly provide information about how visitors interact with the site
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Identify Methods forCollecting Site Feedback
• Proactively evaluating a website helps you create a better experience for your visitors, which will keep them returning to your site
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Identify Methods forCollecting Site Feedback
• Other information you can gather includes learning which of the following your visitors use:– Platform– Browser– Browser version– Screen resolution– Connection speed
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Identify Methods forCollecting Site Feedback
• This can help you determine critical information that will:– help you in the design and publication of your site– make the visitors’ experience more enjoyable
• You will need to consider your visitors’ computer or mobile device configuration, and ensure that you site works with that configuration
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Identify Methods forCollecting Site Feedback
• Services are also available that can track and analyze how visitors are:– Getting to – Using– Navigating your site
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Identify Methods forCollecting Site Feedback
• Which keywords can your visitors use in search engines to find your website?
• Where do visitors go on your website?• Does your site appear in the search engine’s
results?• If you are a commerce site, which navigation
paths did visitors follow most often that ended in a purchase?
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Present Web Pages to Others for Feedback and Evaluation
• You can also form a focus group to help you determine how visitors feel and think when they visit your site
• The information gathered is used to improve your site
• Focus groups can be used before a website is published, after implementation, or when planning a redesign
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Present Web Pages to Others for Feedback and Evaluation
• Before forming a focus group, it is important to see who you identified as the target audience
• Next, identify specific goals and objectives• The focus group is assembled and observed
while members share their opinions, feelings, thoughts and attitudes about the site
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Manage Assets, Links and Files for a Site
• The Files Panel is where:– manage assets locally– files can be deleted– files can be renamed– files can be moved
• You can set up the Files Panel to publish files to a remote or testing server
• When a file is changed, Dreamweaver prompts you if a link needs updated
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Manage Assets, Links and Files for a Site
• You can manage files in the Files panel by:– right-clicking a file OR– clicking the Panel options menu
• These menus differ from one another• On the right-click menu:– Point to Edit to access Delete and Rename commands
• On the Panel options menu:– The Delete and Rename commands are accessed by
pointing to File
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Manage Assets, Links and Files for a Site
• To create a new file or folder:– Right click a file in the Files Panel– In the Panel options menu: point to File and click a
command
• When you rename a file, Dreamweaver prompts you to update any links associated with that file
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Publish and Update Site Files to a Remote Server
• When you want Dreamweaver to connect to a remote folder, you specify the remote folder in the Server category of the Site Definition dialog box
• The remote folder is also referred to as the host directory
• The remote folder should match the local root folder of your Dreamweaver site
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Publish and Update Site Files to a Remote Server
• A remote folder can have name• A common practice among ISPs is to name the
top-level remote folder public_html or pub_html
• Your ISP will inform you of the type of connection you should use when setting up your remote connection
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Publish and Update Site Files to a Remote Server
• FTP:– Common protocol– File-Transfer protocol– Default option in the Connect Using pop-up menu
• If you simply want to connect to a local or network connection to test your site, click Local/Network on the Connect Using pop-up menu
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Publish and Update Site Files to a Remote Server
• When a remote connection is first established, the remote folder is usually empty
• Publishing:– Uploading the files in your local root folder to remote
folder– Populates the remote folder
• The directory structure of both these folders should always be the same to ensure that Dreamweaver uploads files to the current location and the files will be visible to visitors
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Publish and Update Site Files to a Remote Server
• Put command:– Used to publish your files to the remote folder
• Select the local root folder in the Files panel before executing the Put command to upload the entire contents of your local root folder
• If you do not need to update the entire site, you can select the individual pages or folders and click the Put button, and only selected items will be uploaded
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Publish and Update Site Files to a Remote Server
• Get command:– Used to download files from the remote site to
the root folder– Usually done when more than one individual edits
the site
• Check Out command:– Used to ensure that more than one person does
not work on a file at the same time
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Publish and Update Site Files to a Remote Server
• If the Check Out command is used instead of the Get command, Dreamweaver alerts other users that the file has been checked out and by whom
• If the Check Out command is used, the file needs to be placed back in the remote folder using the Check In command
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Publish and Update Site Files to a Remote Server
• Expand:– To view panes displaying the remote server and
local site folder
• If you are unable to see the remote folder, you may need to click the Connect/Disconnect button to connect to the remote site
• Click Collapse button to show only local or remote site and return to single-pane view