Friday, February 22, 2008

Chapters 6, 7, 8: CSS, Fonts and Tables--oh my!

These chapters are starting to get into the "nitty gritty" stuff--getting more detailed and specific.

Chapter 6 was CSS and was a good illustration of different ways to apply CSS using Dreamweaver. Important rule of thumb: don't use the property inspector to edit your pages, then you will have to duplicate your work on each page b/c the CSS will be inline. Instead use the CSS styles panel to create new CSS rules and then you will be able to reapply those rules to all pages!

Chapter 7 covered typography, and showed various ways to edit fonts and create font lists. Again, using CSS was emphasized.

Chapter 8 gave an introduction to tables, which was pretty much a review. I was hoping that Dreamweaver would give an easier way to round corners, but unfortunately, you still have to create image files to do this....:(

I am a little bit behind, because these chapters were lengthier than the earlier ones, but I should be able to catch up this weekend!!

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