Lesson 5. Developing a Page Template
In this lesson, you'll work with two powerful Macromedia Dreamweaver site-development tools: cascading style sheets and Dreamweaver templates. Both are efficient production-streamlining tools that automate the development and maintenance of Web pages. In addition, they ensure design consistency across pages.
A cascading style sheet (CSS) is a collection of text and layout formatting rules that control the appearance of content on one or more Web pages. CSS have considerably more formatting optionsfrom numerous font settings to layout, spacing, and border controlsthan traditional (and now discouraged) HTML-only alternatives, such as the <font>
tag or the align
attribute of many tags. Using CSS, you can achieve a better design than you could in the past. Because multiple pages can point to a single cascading style sheet, you can have consistency across your site and make extensive design changes with minimal effort.
In the course of this lesson, you'll create a cascading style sheet for the Jade Valley Web site to ensure consistent content formatting.
Lesson 6,
Developing Site Content .