Using CSS for Page Layout Working with Floating and AP - New Perspectives on Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Comprehensive - page 175

USING DIV TAGS FOR PAGE LAYOUT

Current best practices for
page layout use div tags and
Cascading Style Sheets to
structure cont e nt in a page.

You adjust the layout of
pag es by creating
styles that position the
divs in the page.

Many Web sites are
created at a width of 955
pixels and are optimized
to display on monitors
set to a screen resolution
of 1024 × 768 and higher.

Floating positioning enables
you to create flexible designs
that vary in size and position in
response to the user's monitor
size and screen resolution.

Fixed-width layout lets
you set a specific size for
the pages. Fixed-width
pages display at the
specified size in the
user's browser,
regardless of the user's
screen resolution.