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Adding structure to text

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Adding structure to text

When designing a new page, one of the first tasks you'll need to do is create the basic structure of your page's HTML. Although we've seen how to import text from programs like Word and retain the default structure, most of the time you are going to need to do a lot of the structuring of the content yourself. And thankfully Dreamweaver makes it incredibly easy to add basic structure to your HTML. In this exercise, we are going to take our programs file which you can see here has been kind of stripped down to the bare bones. And add meaning to the text by formatting it with specific tags. Now keep in mind, that in this exercise we are focusing on simply the main content region of the page, not the layout or the secondary areas. We are just talking about basic text structuring at this point. It would be really easy to look at this file at the moment and say, it doesn't have any structure at all, there is no formatting here. But this is not exactly true. If I click inside for example…

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