Dreamweaver - HTML and CSS Using Dreamweaver

How to update CSS

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Course info

34 lessons / 3 hours

Overview

Dreamweaver (and web design in general) is such a hard program to teach yourself. We know, because as Dreamweaver trainers we have all taught ourselves. We wish we had a resource like this when we were learning.

Hand coding a website from scratch is now a thing of the past. Web designers use tools like Dreamweaver to a lot of the heavy lifting. We imagine this is your first website build and we're glad we're here to help make this process a little less troublesome. 

Who should use this?

Anyone that is brand new to Dreamweaver and anyone brand new to web design in general. If you're reasonably experienced in web design you might find this course a little slow going.

What do you need?

  • You'll need a laptop (Mac or PC)
  • Dreamweaver CC installed. Dreamweaver can be downloaded from theAdobe website here.

Can I use this tutorial with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, CS5 or CS6?

No. Unfortunately there were some fundamental changes in the Dreamweaver CC update that makes CC and previous versions very different.

Remember you can download Dreamweaver CC free for 30 days. Don't worry - after your free trial has expired your files will still be updatable using any other web design program.

If you like the tutorials we'd love you to like, share and tweet it. We'd be very grateful.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi, and welcome to the Dreamweaver tutorial. My names Daniel Walter Scott and I’m a trainer here at Bring Your Own Laptop.

In this video tutorial we are going to look at updated an existing CSS. That might be that you’ve already created it earlier in this tutorial series or you might be having somebody else’s web site that your updating. So to update a CSS what you need to do is to have your cursor selected in the style that you’d like to change and what will happen on the right hand side here is Dreamweaver should be clever enough to explain which tags being styled. You can see here its told me its my h1 thats being styled.

What I can do now is move though and if I want to change the text properties for this CSS, you’ll see here are my styles again for me to go and adjust. What you can do is go via code, which we briefly looked at in the last tutorial. If I want to update this h1, I know its an h1 so I want to go and style this h1 CSS. I can go to the CSS sheet in the top right hand corner, so I’ve clicked on main.css and I can have a look through my list and see if I can find the h1. In here I can see the colour theres the font and theres the weight and there the size. And say that I want to change in here from normal to bold. I’ve got to make sure the language is spelled right this is where using CSS can be a little more tricky.

I can’t accidentally delete the semi colon at the end and if I do, well Dreamweaver will probably handle that but some browsers won’t. Here you can see that Dreamweaver is dealing with it just fine but if I upload it to my website I’m likely to cause trouble for, especially older browsers that can’t deal with any sort of problems.

Alright so how to edit your CSS you can either select it in here and you can see if I clicked inside my P tag it should drop me down to everything I’ve styled with a p or I can do it by clicking the main. CSS in the related documents bar and adjusting it in here.

Alright, thanks for that and I’ll see you in the next tutorial

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