I decided to use Dreamweaver instead of KompoZer to create my personal web page for my SPC 260 course. And I decided to challenge the hell out of myself. I had only learned how to create a site using a fixed size for the web page (this means that the web page would only fill a portion of the browser screen, not stretch to fill it all). Instead, I decided to try my hand at a liquid layout
And, boy, was I stupid.
I Googled practically everything I needed to know to create this format, and nearly nothing made it work! I spend half a day trying to actually get the damn page to format right, but instead of giving up and going back to a fixed layout I just kept making this work!
And, so, after painstaking hours of screaming at my computer and trying everything I could to have a nice looking layout that shrunk and stretched with the browser size,
ê I finally got it to work! ê
Now I kind of know how to make a web page that fills the whole browser. Onto the designing part!
It is perfectly OK to design your pages with Dreamweaver. KompoZer/NVU takes a little getting used to. Still, I think that it is a bit easier to master than Dreamweaver. And the big advantage it has over Dreamweaver is that it's FREE. Given the cost of the ADOBE SUITE software licenses, that is nothing to sneeze at...
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