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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Tom Negrino, Dori Smith
December 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
13h 7m
English
Peachpit Press
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4. Adding Text To Your Pages

The main message of most Web sites is conveyed by the site’s text, and a major part of your job in working with any site will be adding, modifying, and styling that text. Dreamweaver gives you the tools you need to effectively put text on your pages and get your message across.

When you add text, you need to deal with two different aspects of the text: its structure and its presentation. Structural elements are things like paragraphs, headings, lists, and the like; presentation is how the text looks, including things like the font, font size, text color, and so on. Most sites these days separate the structure and the presentation. Structure is about organizing the content on the page, and presentation is concerned ...

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