Pen's Nest

well, there are two ways to do that. Personally I don't like to use the "create template" setting (dream weaver) because the program forces the web page to behave accordingly to default setting. So it's best to create one html and save that one as your layout.

So first you need to create that.

If you want to create the Css to force every of your pages to use that settings, we need to do something else. But first you need to create the master layout (so to speak), so that you know in advance the size of the fonts, the colors etc, that all the other pages will have. (that way we can create the Css stylesheet and attach it to the layout through the dream weaver).

Also it'd be wise if you had the banner ready. All images you want to include should be ready before we start programming :)

ah yes, which version of Dreamweaver do you have? (that way I can build a tutorial for you so that you can know where to find the CSS tab, you'll find that adding Css through dream weaver is remarkably easy).

One tip: save your pages as

mywebpage.html

always write ".html" at the end. If you don't DW saves the pages as ".htm" and some browsers have a bit of trouble reading that extension.


a thing you should know about dream weaver (in case you are new to the program) is that sometimes the default settings get in the way, so you need to have the code window opened, so you know what the code looks like in case the DW does something weird to the design (plus that way you can know how things look like in simple code tags).
For example: I was changing the color and the size of my header fonts and for some reason even though I kept clicking the "bold" tool in the text editor, the font looked just the same, plain and boring.
after an hour or so, I looked into the code and for some weird reason my cursor was placed after the html tag. Obviously I could not change the properties of my text because I was not selecting "the" text. you will see that this problem happens quite often when you use tables and the layout setting. Even though DW has been programmed for people who are not acquainted with html tags, you will find yourself editing right from the code. But don't worry, it's very easy once you get the hang of it.

DW has weird bugs, believe me. but if you know how to dodge them, the program works just beautifully!

Once you've done the layout, try it out with your web browser so that you can check on how things really look on line. (there's no need to upload the web page, just open the html from your web browser).