Template: Wrapper, Header, Contents, Footer, 09/28/09
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Now the fun begins: template creation. Exercise 2 is a guided tutorial through the creation of your site template. You will receive a handout in class stipulating all the steps necessary to create a viable template: Exercise 2: Creating Your Site Template,Be sure that you understand conceptually the design principles depicted in the graphic below regarding the wrapper container that holds three other containing elements for your Web template: header, contents, and footer (click on the graphic to see an enlarged version).
Proper nesting of these containers is critically important in designing the structure of your template. Note that the wrapper div contains the siblings: header, contents, and footer. It may seem strange that the contents div is at the same relational level as the header and footer divs, but think of these containers as all needing to be separate (but not equal) and contained within a parent element.The commented markup is inserted to clarify the relationships of the divs, identified by their particular unique IDs (click on the graphic at left to see an enlarged version).
Note in the markup itself how the sibling divs (header, contents, and footer) are contained in the parent div (wrapper), which is contained in the ultimate parent, the <body> tag. This containment exhibits proper nesting of the divs, without which your Web template would not function properly.
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Labels: container, contents, CSS, Dreamweaver, Exercise 2, footer, header, sibling, template, wrapper
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Monday, September 28, 2009
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