Chapter 3 - Texts and Lists

Creating Heading, Lists, and Blockquotes

"Text should be formatted to add meaning, organization, and clarity to content" - pg 65

Create a Heading

A heading can be created by

  1. placing your cursor in the line you want to convert to a heading, then
  2. under the properties panel, changing the format option to be a heading of Heading 1 through Heading 6 (H1-H6)

Headings should be created in order from 1 to 6, based upon the logical level for the page. H1, should be the top about the entire page, H2, lead into main sections, H3 in to sub sections under H2, etc.

Creating Lists

Lists can be used to show an selection of items (unordered lists), or steps (ordered lists) in a process.

To create a list in Dreamweaver:

  1. Select a section of paragraphs in Dreamweaver, then
  2. Click on the appropriate list button in the properties panel

Blockquotes

Blockquotes are designed to fulfill the purpose of quoting multiple lines in a document. (Think English Comp. Class).

Blockquotes will indent on the left and right side of the paragraph margin.

Examples on pg 69

Sometimes we will want to style them for extra effect (think customer quotes).

Creating Tables

Tables are "tabular" content. Some people try to use them for layout, but this isn't wise.

Tabular content is content which can be grouped/associated with by row and column, think TV Show listings. I can look for all the shows at a given time, let's say 9PM or all the shows on a given channel, let's say Channel 9. With a table the user can "run their finger" up and down or across to find the info they are looking for.

Tables have an outer "<table></table>" set of tags. Each row is enclosed in a table row (<tr>) set of tags. Each cell is enclosed in either a Table Header (<th>) or Table Data (<td>). Inside a cell, almost any form of HTML markup can be used. (paragraphs, lists, even other tables).