Dreamweaver CS3 Advanced

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Welcome to Dreamweaver Advanced. My name is John Wedel, and in Dreamweaver Advanced, we're going to be introducing you to CSS, a term you've probably heard before, but don't know much about. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Cascading Style Sheets are used primarily to give you control over the formatting of your text as well as the layout of your page that you could not get with plain HTML. or with HTML and tables. We're going to learn how we can utilize CSS to help start separating our content from our format information. The reason that we would separate our content from our format information is to make development and deployment to a variety of devices easier by having our content only needed to be developed once, while our unique style and format options for each different display environment can be created in a separate CSS file. Within CSS, we'll be learning about classes, IDs, and reassigning HTML tags as well as what the box model is. We'll be creating internal style sheets, that's CSS that's internal to an actual HTML document, as well as learning how to link to external style sheets, external CSS files. We're going to be working more with the div tag using that for layout and learning how we can use the float property of the div tag in CSS to actually create multiple divs in specified layouts. At the end, we'll take a brief foray into creating forms and understanding how to submit information from a website to a backend server-side scripting language for processing.