Macromedia® Dreamweaver® 8 with ASP, Coldfusion® and PHP: Training from the Source

Chapter 2. Preparing the Static HTML and CSS

In the past, when designers were developing static HTML pages, they would often copy and paste several pages of plain text into Macromedia Dreamweaver, and then go about the task of marking it up to make it presentable. In other words, roughing out the content preceded much of the design work, which came only at the end of the process.

In a way that workflow is turned on its head when working with dynamic Web sites. The content that users see when they visit your site is often added to the HTML pages in the split second between the request for the page and its appearance in the browser. That means that you have to create your designs with placeholder content. In the dynamic Web site development workflow, ...