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Julie Hallstrom
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Familiar features
- Workflows to highlight features
- Investigating the CSS styles of this page
- Move styles and style properties among files
- Migrating development styles to the rest of your site
- Check your CSS decisions
Overview of CSS features in Dreamweaver CS3
The support of CSS in Dreamweaver has been full-featured for a couple of versions. When I approached this version, then, I wondered what could remain to change.
It turns out the devil is in the details. I opened a heavily-styled HTML file in Dreamweaver CS3, and it displayed perfectly (the same file in Dreamweaver 8 displays incorrectly). As I continued to use Dreamweaver CS3, I realized that subtle workflow improvements are the hallmark of its CSS support.
To highlight these changes, I will focus on workflow enhancements, and describe the user interface along the way.
Requirements
To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:
Dreamweaver CS3
Sample files
Note: Many of the files referenced in this tutorial are from the CSS Zen Garden web site.
Prerequisite knowledge
You should be familiar with Dreamweaver.
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).
