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Jon Michael Varese
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Locate your files and review your task
- Learn about CSS
- Create a new style sheet
- Attach a style sheet
- Explore the CSS Styles panel
- Create a new CSS rule
- Apply a class style to text
- Format the navigation bar text
- (Optional) Center the contents of the page
Creating your first website – Part 4: Formatting your page with CSS
Welcome to the fourth part of this article series on creating your first website. This tutorial shows you how to format text on your page using cascading style sheets (CSS) in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. CSS provides you with greater control over the appearance of your pages by letting you format and position text in ways that HTML cannot.
Requirements
To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software:
Dreamweaver CS3
Prerequisite knowledge:
- Part 1: Setting up your site and project files
- Part 2: Creating the page layout
- Part 3: Adding content to pages
About the author
Jon Michael Varese is a senior technical writer at Adobe, and lead writer for Dreamweaver. He has written web and print documentation for Dreamweaver, Fireworks, FreeHand, Flash, and ColdFusion. In addition to writing web tutorials, he is currently at work on his Ph.D. in 19th-century British Literature.
