Dreamweaver has a nice collection of bare-bones web templates. One thing I found cool about these templates, is that they contain a lot of notes that describe why they (the web-nerds at Adobe) have certain things in place – like the specific code they used to deal with a given CSS layout issue. <\/p>\n
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An added bonus: tested layouts<\/strong><\/p>\n The templates are solid, in that you can be sure that they have been tested to work in the major browsers. <\/p>\n … This beats having to tinker with this yourself! That way, you can concentrate on the design.<\/p>\n For my redesign of killersites.com, I used one of the Dreamweaver templates as a starting point. I found that it was well structured, such that it could withstand the changes I needed to make to it.<\/p>\n … Many CSS layouts are fragile, in that if you change just a little bit about it, the whole thing can start to fall apart.<\/p>\n How to find the Dreamweaver CS3 templates<\/strong><\/p>\n Dreamweaver CS3 ships with many templates that you can access either by the ‘Welcome Screen’ or by going into:<\/p>\n File > New <\/p>\n .. This will open up the ‘New Document’ window where you will be able to choose from four categories:<\/p>\n In ‘Blank Page’, I used a template called: ‘2 column liquid, left sidebar, header and footer’. Not the most exciting name, but it does tell you what you’re getting.<\/p>\n If you are a Dreamweaver CS3 user, or someone just interested in exploring quality CSS templates, I would suggest taking a look at the Dreamweaver templates.<\/p>\n PS: you can download a free 30 trial of Dreamweaver CS3<\/a> if you don’t have it already.<\/p>\n
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