Creating a Web Site in Dreamweaver CS4: Visual QuickProject Guide

Chapter 2. Create a Basic Web Site

Thanks to Dreamweaver’s style sheet–based layouts, it’s relatively simple to create a basic Web site with pages that share the same design and navigation buttons. In this chapter, you’ll start by using a basic layout to create a simple home page. In later chapters, you’ll learn to dress it up a bit with images and some special features. Here, however, we’ll focus on the basics: creating, naming, titling, and saving this all-important page.

Don’t let this relatively plain example page fool you. Built with Dreamweaver’s predesigned page layouts using Cascading Style Sheets, it offers a solid foundation for an entire ...