


In the CSS world where the future of web design resides.

Tutorials for hand-coding layers can be found on the web, but using an HTML editor is easier, faster, more accurate, and a lot more fun for us code-challenged types. You might have a different editing program, but the concept will be similar. To create the web site you see on page 67, we’ll use Dreamweaver. Reveals it (great for “fly-out” or “drop-down” menu effects). You can even make a layer invisible until an action such as a mouse-over They can be transparent and overlap other layers. You can then drag individual layers to any position on a page. The basic concept of using layers is this: Each element of your web page is placed on a separate layer.
Web page layers code#
One aspect of CSS is called CSS layers and it’s a great way to build a web page, especially if you use an HTML editor like Golive or Dreamweaver that understands layers and writes the code for you. CSS can also be used to control the appearance of a web page, the position of text or images on a page, and even the visibilty Non-Designer's Web Book, The, 3rd EditionĬSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a popular and powerful way to create style sheets for text (see pages 256–260).
