Table of Content:
- Text and Meaning
- Text and Dreamweaver
- Headers
- Paragraphs
- Line Breaks
- Preformatted Text
- Lists
- Unordered (Bulleted) Lists
- Ordered (Numbered) Lists
- Nested Lists
- Text it Up!
CornerStones of Dreamweaver Design: Text Time!
Everything you know about making text look pretty in Dreamweaver is irrelevant.
The way in which HTML and XHTML are supposed to be used to mark up content uses specific logic, creating a document that is considered well-structured. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily the way you’ve been taught, nor does Macromedia Dreamweaver MX automatically create a well-structured document. You have to understand the purpose and meaning of structure, and then use the tool to create well-structured pages. This article will help. You’ll examine headings, paragraphs, pre-formatted text, and unordered as well as ordered lists. Along the way, you’ll learn why the markup used to format these aspects of text should be structured. You’ll also learn to avoid common hacks, making the text within your documents lean, mean, and ready to be viewed on anyone’s machine.
The way in which HTML and XHTML are supposed to be used to mark up content uses specific logic, creating a document that is considered well-structured. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily the way you’ve been taught, nor does Macromedia Dreamweaver MX automatically create a well-structured document. You have to understand the purpose and meaning of structure, and then use the tool to create well-structured pages. This article will help. You’ll examine headings, paragraphs, pre-formatted text, and unordered as well as ordered lists. Along the way, you’ll learn why the markup used to format these aspects of text should be structured. You’ll also learn to avoid common hacks, making the text within your documents lean, mean, and ready to be viewed on anyone’s machine.
molly holzschlag
Coined "one of the greatest digerati" and deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web, there is little doubt that in the world of Web design and development, Molly E. Holzschlag is one of the most vibrant and influential people around. With over 25 Web development book titles to her credit, Molly currently serves as Communications Director for the World Organization of Webmasters.
As a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly works along with a group of other dedicated Web developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations. She also teaches Webmaster courses for the University of Arizona, University of Phoenix, and Pima Community College. She wrote the very popular column, Integrated Design, for Web Techniques Magazine for the last three years of its life, and spent a year as Executive Editor of WebReview.com.