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Designing with CSS – Part 2: Defining style properties and working with floats

Welcome to the second part of this article series on CSS design concepts. If you missed Part 1, you can return to the beginning by following the link below:

Designing with CSS – Part 1: Understanding CSS design concepts

Part 2 of this series continues on from the topics covered in Part 1, as we examine how you can use Dreamweaver CS3 and CSS positioning to create layouts in your site pages. In Part 1 of the tutorial series, we reviewed how the included CSS templates in Dreamweaver CS3 allow you to create page layouts in just a few clicks; this is very different to the workflow used in earlier versions of Dreamweaver.

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Requirements

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

Dreamweaver CS3

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Sample files

• css2_samples.zip (ZIP, 2K)

Prerequisite knowledge:

This tutorial focuses on working with Dreamweaver CS3 to create site pages formatted with CSS styles and assumes you are familiar with working with both the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. This is Part 2 of a six-part tutorial series—be sure to review Part 1 of this tutorial to understand the concepts discussed in that section before continuing.

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