Investigating the Height Property The height property is a common frustration for CSS newcomers, so I’ll take you through a littl …
Working with Floats The float property allows you to move a floated element either to the right or to the left within its parent contai …
Note: This article has been updated for Dreamweaver 8. If you are still using Dreamweaver MX 2004, please read the version of this arti …
Note: This is the Dreamweaver MX 2004 version of this article. It has been updated for Dreamweaver 8 and you can find the updated versi …
Using a Correct Doc Type I discussed in Part 1 the importance of using a correct doc type. Using either an incomplete doc type, or no …
Writing the Body Selector In Part 1, you learned about defining the margins and padding on the body selector and you saw how CSS allows …
Writing the Wrapper Selector As you can deduce from the title of this section, I refer to this div as a wrapper. The function of a wra …
Creating the Banner Graphic First create the image for your banner: Open Fireworks 8. Create a blank canvas 770 pixels wide by 100 p …
Creating the Banner Selector The next stage of the process is to create the banner div. Because the content within the wrapper flows f …
Creating the Navigation Selector The next element to design within the flow of the page is the container for the navigation. Make this …
Defining the Link Style Once again you will use the descendant selector to pattern-match this XHTML document. You confine this link sty …
Note: This article has been updated for Dreamweaver 8. If you are still using Dreamweaver MX 2004, please read the version of this arti …
Creating a Cascading Style Sheet First, I’d just like to touch on the outmoded use of font tags. By default, Dreamweaver 8 uses s …
Note: This is the Dreamweaver MX 2004 version of this article. It has been updated for Dreamweaver 8 and you can find the updated versi …
Creating a Cascading Style Sheet First, I’d just like to touch on the outmoded use of font tags. By default, Dreamweaver MX 2004 …
Margins, Padding, and Doc Types Starting with version MX 2004, Dreamweaver adds a complete doc type to all pages you create. This was a …