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Creating your first website – Part 4: Formatting your page with CSS


Jon Varese

Jon Varese

Adobe

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Locate your files and review your task
  3. Learn about CSS
  4. Create a new style sheet
  5. Attach a style sheet
  6. Explore the CSS Styles panel
  7. Create a new CSS rule
  8. Apply a class style to text
  9. Format the navigation bar text
  10. (Optional) Center the contents of the page
Created:
26 September 2005
Modified:
17 December 2007
User Level:
Beginner
Products:
Dreamweaver

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:

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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 the past he has held such illustrious positions as baker, clown, and funeral attendant. In addition to writing web tutorials, he is currently at work on his Ph.D. in 19th-century British Literature.