Looking Good

Adding Presentation to Content

Web design is an evolving medium. Practices once considered standard are now deprecated, and eventually will become obsolete as web standards are redefined. For this reason I have decided to use CSS for section 2 on web design.

Using Dreamweaver

The examples in this section use the popular Dreamweaver application to create the hands on exercises. FrontPage support will be here soon.

 

Topics in this Section

Dreamweaver Interface

• Pallettes
• Tag Inspector
• Panel Dock

Site Management

• Creating site folders
• Defining a Site
• Previewing Pages

Web Typography

• Text Formats
• Choosing Typefaces
• Using CSS

Lists

• Ordered and Unordered Lists
• Definition Lists
• Nested Lists

Hyperlinks

• Browse to File
• External Links
• Email Links

Images

• Image Formats
• Inserting Images

Image Maps

Rollover Images

Navigation Bars

Page Layout

• Pixel Based Tables
• Percentage Based Tables
• CSS Layout

Forms

• Inserting Forms
• Inserting Form Objects
• Form Actions

 

What is CSS?

It stands for Cascading Style Sheets.

CSS is used to control how your page is displayed.

 

• Dreamweaver Interface
• Site Management
• Web Typography
• Lists
• Hyperlinks
• Images
• Image Maps
• Rollover Images
• Navigation Bars
• Page Layout
• Forms
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