Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible

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Part II

Designing and Crafting Basic Pages

Summary

Learning to manipulate text is an essential design skill for creating Web pages. Dreamweaver gives

you all the tools you need to insert and modify the full range of HTML text quickly and easily. As

you work with text on your Web pages, keep these points in mind:

HTML headings are available in six different sizes:

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<h1> through <h6>. Headings are used

primarily as headlines and subheads to separate divisions of the Web page.

Blocks of text are formatted with the paragraph tag

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<p>. Each paragraph is separated from

the other paragraphs by a line of whitespace above and below. Use the line break tag,

<br>,

to make lines appear directly above or below one another.

Dreamweaver offers a full complement of text-editing tools—everything from Cut and

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Paste to Find and Replace. Dreamweaver’s separate Design and Code views make short

work of switching between text and code.

Dreamweaver’s Find and Replace feature goes a long way toward automating your work

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on the current page as well as throughout the Web site. Both content and code can be

searched in a basic or very advanced fashion.

You can format Web page text much as you can text in a word processing program through

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CSS. You can select a font’s size and color, as well as the font face through the CSS tab of

the Property inspector and the chosen properties are applied directly to ...