In Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, you can use CSS styles to lay out your page. You can either insert div tags
manually and apply CSS positioning styles to them, or you can use Dreamweaver layers to create your layout.
A layer in Dreamweaver is an HTML page element--specifically, a div tag, or any other tag--that has an absolute
position assigned to it.

NOTE

Dreamweaver treats all div tags with an absolute position as layers, even if you didn’t create those div tags
using the Layer drawing tool.

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You can use a Dreamweaver design file as a starting point for your CSS layout. Select a file from the
Page Designs (CSS) category of the New Document dialog box (see Creating a document based on a
Dreamweaver design file).
Whether you use CSS, tables, or frames to lay out your pages, Dreamweaver has rulers and grids for visual
guidance in your layout. Dreamweaver also has a tracing image feature, which you can use to re-create a
page design that was created in a graphics application.