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Dr. Luanne Eris Fose Revised July 30, 2004

Setting the Page Properties

When you first open a new page in Dreamweaver, your default web page is untitled, with no

background image and only a plain, white background. You can change any of these proeprties

(and more) with Dreamweaver’s Page Properties dialog box. In Dreamweaver MX, the Page

Properties were set to use HTML tags to set up the text and link colors, the background color or

background image, and the page title. These value were automatically placed within the

<body> tag. Dreamweaver MX 2004 promotes the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which

is quickly becoming the standard in the industry. CSS uses internal or external “style sheets”

which affect the properties settings of an entire page (internal) or an entire web site (external).

For the purpose of this tutorial, we are going to create an internal CSS within Dreamweaver and

then export it and attach it to all our pages in our web site in order to create an external CSS

that effects all our pages. Using CSS is the most efficient method to work with web sites. Once

you use it, you will see why so many people are turning to this method of managing the style of

their web page content.

1. Before we get started setting the Page Properties, let’s make that sure that the default

for using CSS hasn’t been turned off. Go to Edit > Preferences > General and make

sure that under Editing options: there is a checkmark next to “Use CSS instead of

HTML tags” and then click OK. (Note: If in the future, you wish to use HTML tags

instead of CSS, you would want to turn this option off.)

2. With the cp_template.html file still open, choose Modify>Page Properties (Ctrl-J) or

click on the Page Properties button that is in the Properties Inspector (Note: This

button is new to Dreamweaver MX 2004). The following dialog box will appear:

Figure 11: Page Properties with CSS Turned On

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