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An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver 8


Julie Hallstrom

Julie Hallstrom

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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. User Interface Changes
  3. Visual Display in Dreamweaver Design View
  4. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
  5. Mini-Workflow Recommendations
  6. Quickly Generate Simple Styles and Build Upon Them
  7. Setting CSS While Adding Content to the Page
  8. Using Dreamweaver to Understand Rules
  9. Use the CSS Styles Panel to Create and Edit Properties
  10. Moving from Document Style Sheet to External Style Sheet
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Created:
12 September 2005
User Level:
All

CSS implementation in this version of Macromedia Dreamweaver is to advanced CSS developers what the previous version provided to beginners. Thankfully, CSS beginners have not been left behind. In this article, I'll take you through all the new CSS features, tools, and user interface changes in Dreamweaver 8. I've provided some sample files to help demonstrate what I cover in this article. Take a moment to download the sample files below, unzip them, and open the csstest.htm file in Dreamweaver 8.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Dreamweaver 8

Tutorials and sample files:

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About the author

Julie Hallstrom is a designer who hand-codes websites for small companies. She increasingly appreciates how Dreamweaver allows developers to quickly create a website with code as lean as hand-coding (or darned near).