An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Adding Content to the Page
To give you an idea of what we have, add some content to this page.

Type: This is the way text will appear …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Define Custom Appearance Choices in the Form of Class Styles:

Click Enter/Return after the last line of text on the sampler page, and …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Forcing Dreamweaver to Add the Class to an Existing Tag
Since you applied the highlight class to pieces of text rather than to a block …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Setting Off Some of the Class Styles Using the Tag Inspector
As experienced CSS users will have noticed, the choices immediately availa …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Define the Styles and Apply Them as You Create the Page
A far more common approach is to generate the CSS styles (or link to an existin …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Using the CSS Styles Panel to Add a New Style
Now that the external style sheet directs the appearance of your file, you need to stay a …

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 R ...

Use the Tag Inspector for Changing and Creating Styles:

Click in the first line of the page. The Tag inspector will show there are two …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed

When I got my review copy of Studio 8, immediately I saved it from that suffocating shrink wrap it came in. The box sure looked nice. T …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Install

Install
I decided to see what would happen if I installed Studio 8 over Studio MX 2004. I wasn’t sure if this new version would i …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Improvements

Improvements
Dreamweaver 8 brings a lot to the table. First and foremost, for the developer, this installment brings Dreamweaver as clo …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Coding Toolbar

Coding Toolbar
The gutter now holds a wealth of handy little widgets that facilitate code collapsing, tag wrapping, comment inserting, …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Pasting from Wo ...

Pasting from Word?
Have you ever received copy from Marketing? From a user with Word? Dreamweaver now has Paste and Paste Special. Neve …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Comment/Uncomm ...

Comment/Uncomment
Now you want to drop a number of preformatted types of comments in to your document. Type your comment, select the ty …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Code Collapsing

Code Collapsing
It’s back! If you’ve been using Homesite (or, heaven forbid, CF Studio) all this time, it never left; but f …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Workspaces

Workspaces
Much improved workspace layouts make working in Dreamweaver 8 very easy. Previous versions offered either “Coder” …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Tag Completion

Tag Completion
Last but certainly not least, one of my favorite improved features in Dreamweaver 8 is the tag completion functionality. …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – New Stuff

New Stuff
CSS
Dreamweaver offers great new support for CSS. The unified CSS panel puts all aspects of using, learning, and mastering CS …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Background File ...

Background File Transfer
Ever configure a site so that the remote site was an ftp site somewhere? Did you ever save a file and have to …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Perfect, Right?

Perfect, Right?
This new Dreamweaver has one major thing going against it: an issue that has been the bane of Dreamweaver users for as …

Dreamweaver 8 Does Standards

If you’re reading this article, you probably already have an interest in the subject of “Web standards,” and are curi …