Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies
Chapter One
The Many Ways to Design
a Web Page
In This Chapter
* Comparing Web design options
* Knowing about browser differences
* Developing a Web site
* Customizing your workspace
In the early days, Web design was relatively easy - and vanilla boring.
You could combine images and text, but that's about it; no complex layouts,
no fancy fonts, and certainly no multimedia or animation.
Over the years, Web design has evolved into an increasingly complex field,
and Dreamweaver has evolved with it, adding new features that go way
beyond the basics of combining a few words and images.
When I first started learning to create Web sites in the mid 1990s, it was easy
to learn and easy to teach others how to do it. More than ten years and a
dozen books later, it's a lot more complex, and I've come to realize that one
of the first things you have to understand about Web design is that there isn't
just one way to create a Web site anymore.
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