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Review Assignments

Practice the skills
you learned in
the tutorial.

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antifest is an alternative music festival started by Dan and Cat Grandquist. The festival
slogan—“It's what is not here that matters!”—has proven to be the festival's guiding light
and possibly the key to its local success. The festival does not have corporate sponsors or
mega vendors and it does not generate much national press. However, the festival has a
lot to offer. People come from all over the country to hear interesting, original, alternative
music, to shop at booths full of unique items created by artisans and do-it-yourself fanat-
ics, and to enjoy a variety of refreshments from small local restaurants and vendors. This
year Dan has decided that the festival would benefi t from a Web site that would help
promoters communicate the schedule, lineup, and other information to patrons.

Before he begins planning the new antifest Web site, Dan wants you to fi nd out what
other festivals do that might work for antifest without interfering with the independent
image of the festival. He also wants you to review the Web sites of alternative bands that
antifest patrons might visit to get some ideas about aesthetic designs that might work for
the antifest site.

1. Start your Web browser.
2. Type the URL for the Web site of a favorite alternative band in the Address bar, and
then press the Enter key. ( Hint : If you don't know the URL for the alternative band
Web site, try typing www. thenameoftheband .com in the Address bar, using the
actual band name.) If you do not know an alternative band, start a search engine
such as Google ( google.com ) or Yahoo! ( yahoo.com ) and search for alternative
bands or alternative music until you fi nd a site you like.
3. Review the home page of the Web site to see what information is included, what
the aesthetics look like, and how the information is arranged. Write a few sentences
describing your fi ndings. Be sure to include the site's URL.
4. Use hyperlinks to explore the site. Look at how information is presented and whether
you can move easily between sections.
5. Click the logo, if there is one. Notice whether the logo is a hotspot, and, if it is,
where it takes you.
6. Repeat Steps 2 through 5 to explore another Web site for a second band and review
the information the site contains.
7. Compare the two sites that you explored. Write down your responses to the follow-
ing questions:
a. What are the similarities and the differences between the sites?
b. Which features do you prefer? Why?
c. Can any of the features from these sites be incorporated into the new antifest site?
If so, which features?
d. How would your suggestions help antifest's communication efforts?
8. Close the browser window.
9. Start Dreamweaver.
10. Use Dreamweaver Help to learn more about working with Dreamweaver sites.
11. List four things you learned.
12. Exit Dreamweaver. Submit your answers to your instructor.