Chapter 5 Formatting Content

Much of the formatting you can do in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX is similar to the 

formatting you would do in a word processing document.  However, unlike a word 

processing document, formatting on web pages is extremely malleable.  Because how 

a web page is viewed is more a product of the program used to display it (i.e. Internet 

Explorer, Netscape) than the tool used to create it (i.e. Dreamweaver, FrontPage), 

you'll want to know how to apply the formatting, and then understand how it may 

appear to the user.

It all sounds complicated and uncertain, but once you get the hang of it, you'll start to 

understand.  The important thing to know is never to rely solely on what you see, 

because chances are that someone else, on a different computer or using a different 

Internet browser will see it differently.

After reviewing this chapter you should feel comfortable withe following:

considerations in using font faces, sizes and colors

using the Properties panel to format paragraph and character text

the difference between paragraphs and line breaks

managing ordered, unordered and nested lists

So we've done our best to show you how to do things, and then to give you sugges 

tions on what to consider when making choices.  There is also a great section at the 

back of this manual that offers additional considerations that professional web design 

ers keep in mind for their work, see  Best Practices  on page 87.

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