Hi there,

I'm a begginer to web design and am hoping someone can help me with my website. I use Dreamweaver MX on a MAC platform and by default every link is red and sized bigger then i want it. My question is, is there an easy way to change this default to say blue and have it a smaller font size without using CSS Styles? If not what is the easiest way to change this so that it stays consistent thru-out the whole site?

Please help

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Why would you want to do that <b>without</b> CSS?
You can change the a:link styles if you go to: Modify&gt;Page Properties
However using CSS is much more powerful and flexible - you can style the links in almost any way your imagination can concieve

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Why would you want to do that <b>without</b> CSS?
You can change the a:link styles if you go to: Modify&gt;Page Properties
However using CSS is much more powerful and flexible - you can style the links in almost any way your imagination can concieve

Live the life you love
Love the life you live

Simon

[DWMX 2004]|[SQL]|[ASP/VBScript]|[XP-Pro]

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I just tried Modify&gt;Page Properties and I am not able to change from there as the message says "making the change would require changing the code that is locked by the template or a translator..." so unless you can help me change the code then maybe you can tell me how to do this with CSS.

Thanks for the first post. I already learned something new.

If you're using templates to control the general design of the site then you'll need to modify the page properties in the template file - it will be in the Templates folder with extension .dwt When you make changes there they will cascade down to all pages that are built using that template (provided the changes are in areas that are locked, i.e. not editable / optional)

However CSS is really the best way to go
I would suggest looking at the following links to get started
<ul>
<li> www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/ </li>
<li> www.dmxzone.com/showDetail.asp?TypeId=2&NewsId=5550 </li>
<li> www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/articles/dw2004_cssp.html </li>
</ul>

The macromedia link also shows you how to start using CSS within Dreamweaver - no hand coding required - and also deals with using CSS for layouts!

If you get stuck with something specific post it up here and we'll help debug it

HTH


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Simon

[DWMX 2004]|[SQL]|[ASP/VBScript]|[XP-Pro]