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Managing starter pages

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Managing starter pages

While starter pages can do a great job of giving new designers a head start on controlling page layout with CSS, they are by nature designed to be individual pages. Using the CSS within a starter page to control an entire site can be a bit of a challenge to somebody who's not familiar with CSS. So in this movie I want to show a workflow based on creating sites through starter pages. By no means is it the only way you use starter pages, nor am I suggesting that this is the preferred way of establishing site layout. It does however offer somebody who's new to Web design a quick way to establish a solid site-wide layout, and it introduces new designers to the concept of controlling sites through external CSS files. So I want to go right back to what we were doing in the previous movie by using some starter pages. I have defined the 03_05 folder as the root folder for our site, and I am just going to go up to File and choose New. Once again this is going to take us back to this dialog box…

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