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Part III
Adding Advanced Design Features
Creating a frameset visually
Another way of creating a frameset is to start with an existing document and use the mouse to drag
and drop the frame borders into position. When you do this, Dreamweaver creates all the new files
necessary for your frameset. To create a frameset visually, using the mouse, follow these steps:
1. If necessary, switch to Design view by clicking the Show Design View button on the
Document toolbar or by choosing View ➪ Design. (You can also work in the combined
Design and Code view, but these steps do not apply to Code view.)
2. Turn on the frame borders in Design view by choosing View ➪ Visual Aids ➪ Frame
Borders. A 3-pixel–wide inner border appears along the edges of your Design view. These
borders indicate the boundaries of your frames so that you can edit them easily; these bor-
ders do not appear when the frameset is viewed in a browser window. See “Working with
the Frameset Property Inspector,” later in this chapter, to learn how to make the borders
visible in a browser.
3. Position the cursor over any of the frame borders. If your pointer is over any side of a frame
border, it changes into a two-headed arrow; it changes into a four-headed arrow (or a drag-
hand on the Mac) when it’s over a corner.
4. Drag the frame border into the middle of the Document window. Figure 16-3 shows a four-
frame frames ...