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Adding structure to text

Adding structure to text

When designing a new page, one of the first tasks you'll need to do is to create the basic structure of your page's HTML. If you're typing in your content directly into Dreamweaver, you can add that structure as you type. If you are importing content from programs like Word, you can either preserve the text's structural formatting or reassign content to specific tags. Whatever approach you take, Dreamweaver makes it incredibly easy to add basic structure to your HTML. In this exercise, we'll take a resource file, which has been stripped down to the barebones, and add meaning to the text by formatting it within specific tags. Keep in mind that in this exercise we are focusing on the main content region of the page, not the layout or the secondary areas. The markup we would use for page layout will be covered a little bit later on. So here I have my resource file open from the 05_02 folder. Now it would be really easy to look at this file and say it doesn't have any structure at all…

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