Anyone who has dabbled in CSS and wants
to take their skills to the next level may ?¬? nd this chapter to be very
enlightening??”I certainly hope so.
Use the Right Tools
So before we launch into to the book proper, I want to explain how
to get set up to work so that you can in the shortest possible time
achieve page layouts that will work across the largest number of
browsers.
You need a good code editor to write your code, and an FTP client
to move your ?¬? les to the Web server. Adobe Dreamweaver (about
$400) integrates both of these and is my programming tool of
choice. The code view is very helpful, color coding the different
elements of your code, indicating syntax errors, and guessing what
you are typing so you can auto-complete many common code
elements after typing the ?¬? rst couple of letters. The design view,
which attempts to render the page like a browser, is also useful if
only because you can click any displayed element and immediately
be jumped to related part of the code in the code view. There are
also many low- and no-price editors and FTP clients out there that
offer similar features if you don??™t want to make the investment in
Dreamweaver. However, what ultimately matters is not what tools
you use to write and upload your code, but what your Web pages
look like in the user??™s browser.
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Only Four Browsers Matter
You may be surprised when I tell you that there are only four browsers
you really need to care about testing your work in:
??? Firefox
??? Safari
??? Internet Explorer 7
??? Internet Explorer 6
That is because these four browsers account for over 95 percent
of all Web users, with none of the others having more than about
a 2 percent market share (source: my averaging of Wikipedia??™s listing
of many browser statistics sites at http://en.
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