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Unit 12: Dreamweaver – Layers and Style Sheets

Hopefully, you have found an interesting technique here or expanded your ideas of how Notes
to use Spry.
Questions:

1. Study and analyze the case.
2. Write down the case facts.
3. What do you infer from it?

Source: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spry_periodic_case_study.html

12.6 Summary

z Dreamweaver from Adobe is the web development tool that lets you efficiently design,
develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications.
z Layers can be used for a page layout or to add special effects.
z Layers can be overlapped with one layer partially or completely covering the layer
underneath. They can also be nested.
z We can convert layout layers to a table. We can also have tables within layers.
z We can adding elements like text and images into Layers.

z Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a collection of formatting rules that control the appearance
of content in a web page.
z You can change CSS into HTML to help with using Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver creates a
new document with HTML, leaving the CSS document in its original form.
z Using inheritance we can apply CSS rules to more than one tag.

12.7 Keywords

Cascading: The term cascading in CSS refers to how many style sheets can affect a single document
in a cascading manner.
CSS Palette: The CSS palette helps you assign certain properties to a specific HTML tag.
CSS: They are a collection of formatting rules that control the appearance of content in a web
page.
Dreamweaver: Dreamweaver is the web development tool that lets you efficiently design, develop
and maintain standards-based websites and applications.

External Style Sheet: The CSS files that are linked to a document externally.
Inheritance: The property by which a child adapts the attributes of its parent.
Layers: They are used for a page layout or to add special effects.

Nested Layer: A nested layer is a “parent” layer and a “child” layer and the child layer is
positioned in relation to the parent.

12.8 Review Questions

1. What is Dreamweaver? Also discuss the advantages of Dreamweaver.

2. Explain the concept of layers.

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