Chapter 12: Working With; About Working With Pages - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-USING DREAMWEAVER Use Manual

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 provides many features to help you create new web pages.
These page creation features can help you more easily specify web page properties such as page
titles, background images and colors, and text and link colors. In addition, Dreamweaver MX
2004 provides tools to help you maximize website performance, and to create and test pages to
ensure compatibility with different web browsers.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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"About working with pages" on page 253
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"Saving web pages" on page 257
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"Specifying HTML instead of CSS" on page 258
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"Setting page properties" on page 258
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"Working with colors" on page 260
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"Selecting elements in the Document window" on page 262
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"Using the History panel" on page 263
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"Automating tasks" on page 265
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"Using JavaScript behaviors to detect browsers and plug-ins" on page 270
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"Previewing and testing pages in browsers" on page 270
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"Setting download time and size preferences" on page 272

About working with pages

When creating a web page, you must consider what browsers and operating system users will view
your web page with, and what language sets you may need to support. The following sections will
help you understand how to select colors that are displayed correctly in different web browsers,
the encoding of different characters (letter forms) for different languages, and how to check that a
web browser is compatible with your website.
CHAPTER 12
Working with Pages
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