Working with Dreamweaver 2

Even if you are creating only a simple Website, you should begin by sketching out the layout of your site. Decide where you want titles, images, navigation buttons, and text to appear on the screen.

Most web sites have the same design characteristics on every page. For example, Website titles are usually in the top left or top center, while navigation buttons usually

appear vertically on the left or horizontally below the title. In addition to sketching out a layout for each page, you should determine how many pages you will need for the

Website. Thorough planning is essential to good web design.

In order to get your text, navigation buttons, and images to appear where you want them on the Web page; you need to use tables to format content of each page.

Everything on each page of your Website should fit within one large table.

Using your layout sketches, you can determine what your table needs to look like. Fig. 5 shows a simple layout sketch. Fig. 6 shows the same layout, with

table borders drawn in. Fig. 7 and Fig. 8 show how the table can be implemented in Dreamweaver.

Now, simply create a table in Dreamweaver that has the same characteristics as the borders drawn on the page. The next chapter will teach you how to insert your table.

Fig 5 and Fig 6