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Using Dreamweaver
Page Designs
D
reamweaver comes with numerous predefined
Web pages to help you create starter pages for a
number of different types of sites. Using such
ready-made designs can save you time and keep the pages
within your site consistent.
Dreamweaver page-design documents are formatted and
have placeholder information. When you select a page
design, a Web page opens that is formatted and has
placeholder content for the various parts of the Web page.
You just need to replace the placeholder content with the
content you want on your Web page. You can also change
the Web page format until it suits you perfectly. Then, you
save the document in the local site folder of your
Dreamweaver site, giving it an appropriate filename.
The predefined pages are grouped into different categories,
such as Commerce (display products and shopping carts),
Image (formats for displaying images), Text ( layouts for
online newsletters and magazines), and UI (standard forms).
Page-design documents are not templates. They are just
Web pages that have code already in them. You can edit
the code as you need to and replace placeholder text and
images. Templates are more complicated. Chapter 10
discusses the many uses and features of templates.
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1 Display the New Document dialog box.
Note: See the section “Create a Web Page” to
display the New Document dialog box.
2 Click Page Designs.
A list of available page designs appears.
3 Click page design.
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Dreamweaver displays a preview and
description of the design.
4 Click Create.
A new page opens with placeholder content.
5 Replace the placeholder information with the
information you want on your Web page.
Note: Chapter 3 discusses editing Web pages.
Note: Chapter 3 discusses adding text and Chapter
5 discusses images.
6 Save the file.
Note: See the section “Save a Web Page” to save a
Web page.
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