Course Contents

Layout Master manual table of contents

Layout Master and web page layouts

What is a Web Page Layout?

A positioning example

Using Layout Master

What does Layout Master do?

Using Layout Master: an overview

An overview of the process

Creating, opening and saving layouts

Creating and opening layouts

The page layout window

Saving Layouts

Layout Master editors

The editors

Browser compatibility warnings and help

The layout grid

The layout grid editor

Menu shortcuts

Body properties

Editing body properties

Page background properties

Background color
Background image
Background repeat
Background attachment
Background position

Working with positioned elements

Wireframe or WYSIWYG

What is a positioned element?

Adding new positioned elements

Inserting positioned elements

The layout view

Editing positioned element properties

The Properties Editor

The Location tab
The Background and Border tab
Background properties
Border properties
The Content tab

Working with layouts

Laying out positioned elements

Guides

Dragging and dropping

Nudging

Resizing

Duplicating, deleting, cutting, copying and pasting elements

Aligning elements

The Alignment Editor

Changing the stacking order

Nesting positioned elements

The Elements Editor

Previewing

Setting up preview browsers

Previewing in browsers

Live previewing

Working with other applications

Helper applications

Setting up helper applications

Using helper applications

Preferences

Layout Master preferences

Editing Preferences

Appendix 1 CSS values

Color values

Length values

Percentage values

Appendix 2 value editors

The color chooser

The length chooser

The URL chooser

Appendix 3 CSS properties

Background properties

Page layout properties

Border properties

Appendix 4 HTML and XHTML

Case sensitivity

HTML versus XHTML syntax

Layout Master table of contents