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Sheri German

Sheri German

Community MX

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Creating the external style sheet
  3. Writing the body rule
  4. Writing the wrapper rule
  5. Writing the header rules
  6. Writing the nav rule
  7. Formatting the columns
  8. Adding the footer rules
  9. Adding the clearing class and conditional comments
Created:
18 December 2006
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
Fireworks

Taking a Fireworks comp to a CSS-based layout in Dreamweaver – Part 3: Layout and CSS

Part 1 of this tutorial showed you how to prepare the images in your Fireworks comp for the structural markup of a layout for a fictitious company, Blue Skies Design. In Part 2 you coded the markup that provides the hooks for the Cascading Style Sheet.

Now in Part 3 you will complete the layout and create the final style sheet.

Requirements

To complete all the sample projects, you will need the following software and files:

Fireworks 8

Dreamweaver 8

Sample files:

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About the author

Sheri German teaches web standards development at the Government Printing Office Federal Institute for Printing and Electronic Publishing. She also teaches web technology and technology education at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD, and provides hands-on tutorials for the Washington Apple Pi MUG. In her own web design work, she concentrates on websites for people in the arts and has created many sites for dancers, musicians, and writers. Sheri is an Adobe Education Leader and Certified Dreamweaver MX 2004 Developer. Along with Kim Cavanaugh, she is the author of The Dreamweaver 8 Visual Encyclopedia (ISBN: 0471751766). Her other writing activities include contributing author to the Washington Apple Pi Journal, training materials for classes, and articles for Community MX, where she is the partner in charge of the JumpStarts (Dreamweaver standards templates) program. Sheri has an MA in Music, and when she is not developing websites or teaching, she listens to classical music or takes ballet classes. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two children, three cats, and a dog.