Scenario
For the purposes of this book, you’ll be working to develop a website for Meridien GreenStart, a fictitious community-based organization dedicated to green investment and action. This website will offer a variety of products and services and require a broad range of webpage types, including dynamic pages using technologies such as jQuery, which is a form of JavaScript.
Your customers come from a wide demographic that includes all ages and education levels. They are people who are concerned about environmental conditions and who are dedicated to conservation, recycling, and the reuse of natural and human resources.
Your marketing research indicates that most of your customers use desktop computers or laptops, connecting via high-speed Internet services. You can expect to get 20 to 30 percent of your visitors exclusively via cellphone and other mobile devices, and much of the rest will be using mobile from time to time.
To simplify the process of learning Dreamweaver, we’ll focus on creating a fixed-width site design first. In Lesson 7, “Designing for Mobile Devices,” you’ll learn how to adapt your fixed-width design to work with smartphones and tablets.