Designing with CSS – Part 5: Moving the Navi ...

Moving the Navigation
At the end of Part 4, I set a little exercise for you to add an h1 title and p elements into the leftcol div. How …

Designing with CSS – Part 5: Making Structur ...

Making Structural Changes in the HTML Document
Open basiclayout.html in the Code view of Dreamweaver. Because you need to make some pre …

Designing with CSS – Part 5: Restyling the U ...

Restyling the Unordered Navigation List
Begin by making changes to your #leftcol #nav ul selector. It should currently look similar to …

Designing with CSS – Part 5: Making Changes ...

Making Changes to the Link Styles
To change the default, or inactive, state of the links in your new navigation system, you first need …

Designing with CSS – Part 5: Adding Hover an ...

Adding Hover and Focus Styling
With the hover and focus styles you are going to use a little border trickery to make the links act more …

Designing with CSS – Part 5: Adding a Backgr ...

Adding a Background Image
Making two columns appear to be the same length is very easy to accomplish using background images. You will …

Designing with CSS – Part 6: Deciding Whethe ...

Note: This article has been updated for Dreamweaver 8. If you are still using Dreamweaver MX 2004, please read the version of this arti …

Designing with CSS – Part 6: Should I Float ...

Should I Float or Should I Position?
That is the question! You have already learned that to have two block-level elements, like divs, s …

Designing with CSS – Part 6: Major Problem w ...

Major Problem with Absolute Positioning
As I see it, the major problem with absolute positioning is this: You cannot clear an absolutel …

Designing with CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004 – ...

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 …

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Creating a Standards-Compliant Page
To achieve the structure shown previously in Figure 1, lay out your page so that it can be process …

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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 …

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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 …

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Creating the Banner Graphic
First create the image for your banner:

Open Fireworks MX 2004.
Create a blank canvas 770 pixels wide by …

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Creating the Banner Selector
The next stage of the process is to create the banner div. Because the content within the wrapper flows f …

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Creating the Navigation Selector
The next element to design within the flow of the page is the container for the navigation. Make this …

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Defining the Link Style
Once again you will use the descendant selector to pattern-match this XHTML document. You confine this link sty …

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Setting Up the Content Div
The next element to design in the XHTML document is the container for the main content, appropriately named …

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Clearing Elements
The following property (and value) makes an element appear below all the content that is above it within the flow of …

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Writing the Footer Selector
Make the footer selector the same way you created the other selectors. The footer will also be an ID select …