July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1034 pages
38h 32m
English
Content preview from Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual
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Creating a Web Page
After you define a site, you’ll want to start building pages. Just choose File→New or press Ctrl+N (⌘-N on Macs) to open Dreamweaver’s New Document window (see Figure 1-15). It’s a little overwhelming at first. You have so many options it’s hard to know where to start. Fortunately, when you just want to create a new HTML file, you can skip most of these options.
Figure 1-15. The New Document window lets you create nearly every type of web document under the sun. Dreamweaver CS6 includes a set of prepack-aged CSS layouts that use the latest web design techniques, including HTML5. You’ll learn more about these layouts in Chapter 10.
To create a basic HTML file for a web page:
From the left-hand list of document categories, choose Blank Page.
The Blank Page category lets you create a new empty document—maybe a web page or something a bit more esoteric, like an XML file, an external JavaScript file, or one of the several types of server-driven pages (such as a PHP file, discussed in Chapter 21).
The Fluid Grid Layout option is new in Dreamweaver CS6. It lets you create a web page that adapts to three browser widths: one for a phone, a tablet, and a desktop browser. You’ll learn how to use this feature on Adding Styles to Media Query Style Sheets.
Both the Blank Template and “Page from Template” categories relate to Dreamweaver’s Template feature discussed in Chapter 19
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