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Chapter 1
The Many Ways to Design
a Web Page
In This Chapter
Comparing Web design options
Knowing about browser differences
Developing a Web site
Customizing your workspace
I
n the early days, Web design was relatively easy — and vanilla boring.
You could combine images and text, but that’s about it; no complex lay-
outs, no fancy fonts, and certainly no multimedia or animation.
Over the years, Web design has evolved into an increasingly complex field,
and Dreamweaver has evolved with it, adding new features that go way
beyond the basics of combining a few words and images.
When I first started learning to create Web sites in the mid 1990s, it was easy
to learn and easy to teach others how to do it. More than ten years and a
dozen books later, it’s a lot more complex, and I’ve come to realize that one
of the first things you have to understand about Web design is that there isn’t
just one way to create a Web site anymore.
Today, you can learn how to design simple Web sites with HTML (HyperText
Markup Language) in a matter of hours or you can spend years developing
the advanced programming skills it takes to create complex Web sites like
the ones you see at Amazon.com or MSNBC.
For everything in between, Dreamweaver is the clear choice among profes-
sional Web designers as well as among a growing number of people who want
to build sites for their hobbies, clubs, families, and small businesses.
Before I dive into the details of creating a Web page in Dreamweaver, I think
it’s helpful to start by introducing the many ways you can create a Web site.
The more you understand about the various approaches to Web design, the
better you can appreciate your options.
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Summary of Contents

Page 1 - The Many Ways to Design

Chapter 1The Many Ways to Design a Web PageIn This Chapter Comparing Web design options Knowing about browser differences Developing a Web site Cu

Page 2 - Developing a New Site

20Part I: Creating Great Web Sites Understanding Browser DifferencesBefore you start creating Web pages, know that no matter how carefully you create

Page 3 - What’s behind the scenes

21 Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web PageHere’s a bird’s-eye view of getting started in the Dreamweaver interface: 1. When you launch Dreamwe

Page 4 - Comparing Web Designs

22Part I: Creating Great Web Sites Changing workspace layoutsDreamweaver CS4 has eight preset workspace layouts to choose from. These layouts arrange

Page 5

23 Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web Pageworking links and dynamic content so that the page works in Dreamweaver much as it would when previewe

Page 6 - Reviewing old-school designs

24Part I: Creating Great Web Sites The docking panelsThe docking panels are located to the right of the work area when you choose any of the designer

Page 7 - Considering frame options

25 Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web PageThe Insert panelThe Insert panel, located at the top of the panel section, includes seven sub-categori

Page 8 - Creating dynamic Web sites

26Part I: Creating Great Web Sites can move the inspector anywhere on the screen or you can drag it into the panel group and dock it there. When you d

Page 9

27 Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web PageOn the far left of the status bar, as shown in the top of Figure 1-9, you find the tag selector, which

Page 10 - Introducing the Workspace

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12Part I: Creating Great Web Sites Developing a New SiteIn a nutshell, building a Web site involves creating individual pages and link-ing them to oth

Page 12 - The Document toolbar

13 Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web Pagebar to include links to the main pages of your site on every page of your site. You find instructions

Page 13 - The Document window

14Part I: Creating Great Web Sites Although at first glance, the code can look like hieroglyphics, basic HTML is not that complex. Most XHTML tags wor

Page 14 - The docking panels

15 Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web Pagedecide later that you want all your headlines to use the Garamond font instead of Arial, change the st

Page 15 - The Property inspector

16Part I: Creating Great Web Sites  Web sites designed in CSS are accessible to more visitors. When Web designers talk about accessibility, they mea

Page 16 - The status bar

17 Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web Page Figure 1-3: In the old days, the only way you could create a 2-column Web design was by using an HTML

Page 17 - Changing preference settings

18Part I: Creating Great Web Sites a little like the plastic Pink Flamingos stuck in the front yards of so many homes in South Florida; some people lo

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19 Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web Page Figure 1-4: Frames enable you to display multiple Web pages in one browser window. Figure 1-5: Total

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