Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Training from the Source

In this lesson, you'll determine the hierarchy of text-based content to develop the flow of material on a page. This is the next step in creating a Websitedeveloping the structure and hierarchy of content. By establishing the structure and building the framework, you address the core element of the site: content. Specifying the structure using the principles covered in this lesson will help you to create a more flexible, effective, and accessible Website. In the following exercises you'll create the form through which the Website will take shape. You'll do this by determining the order of importance of contentgrouping and subdividing the information into distinct areas. These distinctions help give meaning to what the visitor will see and help to create an effective and well-organized site.

This lesson teaches you how to import text that might have been saved in different file formats, how to compensate for receiving material from different operating systems, and how to address multilingual documents. You will also learn how to set basic document

In this lesson, you'll work on the Yoga Sangha project site home page while learning to add content and develop effective page structures by grouping the materials.

properties such as font and text size, how to format text into several different types of lists, and how to include special characters such as copyright symbols.

Formatting text is an important part of making your Web pages easy for visitors to read. Text can be a vital element on your pages; take the time to organize and arrange your material so that users can read through it quickly and easily.

You can find an example of the completed Lesson 2 in the Completed folder inside the Lesson_02_Content folder on the CD-ROM.