Understanding Layers
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Layers are dynamic HTML (DHTML) components that allow you to manipulate and organize content creatively, free of some of the limitations of layout tables.
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Updating Pages through Your Template
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Changing, adding, or deleting elements to your web pages through your template is very simple.
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Working with Templates in Dreamweaver
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Templates are great time-savers:
They allow you to apply the same design elements, such as navigation bars and headers, to multiple web pages.
Here is how you create a template...
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Giving Your Web Page a Title
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Though the old adage goes “never judge a book by its cover,” but we all judge web pages by their titles.
Titles appear in search engines and web directories, and are typically the only way a user has of understanding the page’s content before visiting it.
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Predicting Your Page's Download Speed
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Find out how long it will take for your visitors to load your page!
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Place any content anywhere you want without having to use tables! An intro to layers
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Layers are dynamic HTML components ("DHTML") that allow you manipulate and organize your content creatively, free of some of the limitations of layout tables.
Layers can contain text, images, or applications, but you can position the layer (and the content placed on the layer) at any place on the page...
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Changing Status Bar Message
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Did you know that you can change the message that appears in the status bar?
The next time someone hovers over a link on your site, instead of just displaying a boring link location (e.g. "http://www.yourpage.com/contact/feedback.htm "), you can surprise you visitors with a customized message (e.g. "Send your feedback") that appears in their status bar...
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How to use a tracing image
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Did you know that you can just draw an image, either with pen and paper, or with Photoshop, or something like it, stick it into Dreamweaver, and trace it?
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