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Joseph W. Lowery

"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"

This chapter also gives you your first look at a Dreamweaver
innovation: Code view, for altering the code side by side with the visual environment.
The other Dreamweaver-specific material in this chapter??”which primarily
describes how Dreamweaver sets and modifies page properties??”is suitable
for even the most accomplished Web designers. Armed with these fundamentals,
you are ready to begin your exploration of Web-page creation.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Laying the code foundation
Working with the
section
Developing the section
Exploring Code view
Dreamweaver Technique:
Collapsing and Moving Code
Adding special characters
Accessing the
Code Directly
The Structure of a Web Page
The simplest explanation of how HTML works derives from the full expansion of its acronym: Hypertext
Markup Language. Hypertext refers to one of the World Wide Web??™s main properties??”the capability to
jump from one page to another, no matter where the pages are located on the Web. Markup Language means
that a Web page is actually a heavily annotated text file. The basic building blocks of HTML, such as
and
, are known as markup elements, or tags. The terms element and tag are used interchangeably.
An HTML page, then, is a set of instructions (the tags) suggesting to your browser how to display the
enclosed text and images.

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Joseph W. Lowery

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