Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 4 in 24 Hours

Hour 14. Harnessing the Power of CSS Layouts

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to design the layout of your page using pen and paper

• How to separate the elements of the layout using boxes

• How to understand and use CSS positioning

• How to create CSS layouts using the prepackaged layouts featured in Expression Web 4

• How to apply a separate layout style sheet to existing pages

Introduction

Designing a web page or website is more than just adding content and applying styles. Layout is also an important consideration. A good layout means better readability and, from that, better communication between the author and the reader. Likewise, a bad layout can easily lead to the message getting lost and the reader ending up with a poor understanding ...