Is there any document size in Dreamweaver when we design a website (just like
in Flash)
How do we pull the page content in the center of the page?
Is table still used with the advent of CSS?

Thanks

Hi,
Thank you for the kind response.

What is the current doc size used for creating websites nowadays? I know that
920 x 760 px is nowadays an appropriate resolution for the screen. I am not
sure how to create a specific doc size or dimension in Dreamweaver.

Moreover, from the tags:
<div style="width:760px;margin:0 auto;">
Do you define the width:760px as the stage size or doc size?

Regards,
xk

Hi,
By doc size, I do not imply file size. I would like to know how do we set a
stage size? or the this tag is sufficient to determine the stage size for
creating a website:
<div style="width:760px;margin: auto;">

By demographic, do you want to know who is the target audience or whether it
will contain video, sounds, animation?

Kindly refer to some excellent online sources/tutorials that will help me
build a dynamic website; that has good CSS tutorials as well.

Thank you again for the kind response.

> By doc size, I do not imply file size. I would like to know how do we set
> a
> stage size?

There's no such thing. HTML doesn't have a fixed canvas. A web browser's
viewport (the area showing the HTML) can be anything and everything...it's
entirely up to the end user.

You can restrict width of objects on the page to a reasonable degree, but
that's about it. So you could wrap your page content in a DIV of 800px, for
instance.

-Darrel

..oO(uxk)

> By doc size, I do not imply file size. I would like to know how do we set a
>stage size? or the this tag is sufficient to determine the stage size for
>creating a website:

The Web is not a sheet of paper. It's totally flexible by definition.
Restricting a website to a fixed size just limits your possibilities and
takes away a lot of the power of HTML.

Micha

If by "stage" size you mean just the area that encloses the "web page",
then as Murray has said, you can define the width of a containing div.
(Mine is called #wrapper.) It will be a "stage" on the viewed page.
Everything outside of that "stage" will depend on how large the viewer's
viewport is - you can set the color of that area, or a background image
for that area, or do nothing with it. It's up to you. If you look at my
website, the "stage" for the content is 777 pixels wide. But, I've
designated a color to surround that stage, and the size of that area is
totally dependent on the viewport area of whoever might be looking at
the website.

--

Virginia Carter
Carolina Web Creations
======================
www.carolinawebcreations.biz

uxk wrote:
> Hi,
> By doc size, I do not imply file size. I would like to know how do we set a
> stage size? or the this tag is sufficient to determine the stage size for
> creating a website:
> <div style="width:760px;margin: auto;">
>
> By demographic, do you want to know who is the target audience or whether it
> will contain video, sounds, animation?
>
> Kindly refer to some excellent online sources/tutorials that will help me
> build a dynamic website; that has good CSS tutorials as well.
>
> Thank you again for the kind response.
>

>uxk

>As a designer, I am more interested designing 'compelling,
>attractive, engaging" websites.
Like you, my expertise isn't in web design. For over a decade I have been a
Database Manager/Graphic Designer/Catalog Admin./Marketing anything. For my
first attempt at creating a website for my new employer, I started with DW The
Missing Manual. I was stumbling along because I only had minimal HTML knowledge
and my only other syntax understanding was BASIC and SQL. Then I found the
advice from these forums to learn HTML and CSS. By picking up HTML book(s) has
given me an understanding of the process taking place to layout the backbone of
my web page. There's a lot of additional avenues as I've progressed (adding
CSS), though starting with HTML I now see that that has the basic prelude for a
website. Once I finished reading a couple HTML books, I picked up DW The
Missing Manual again, and I am now far more comfortable and moving nicely along
with building my website.

> I need some goood resources to start with that
> will teach you step by step.
I used to teach college IT courses, and the class books always had great
step-by-step instruction. You may be able to find a Dreamweaver or web design
course text book at one of the used text book websites (i.e. Half.com).