In the first chapter of this book, we saw a compressed overview of the basic and foundational techniques for working in Dreamweaver CS6: working in a defined Dreamweaver site, building HTML5 pages, linking CSS stylesheet files, and constraining page content in a <div>
container tag.
In this chapter, we'll learn to build web pages in Dreamweaver using HTML5 container tags. These are the following four things we will accomplish by learning to do that:
Building page layouts relying exclusively on HTML5 layouts will hone our skills at using these new tools for page design, and introduce HTML5 Code Hints in Dreamweaver
Relying on standardized and defined HTML5 layout elements (as opposed to custom-defined, irregularly-implemented
div
tags) streamlines the page designThere are actual, significant real-world scenarios where building pages relying exclusively on HTML5 layout elements is the best way to design pages (for example, when designing pages for...