"Creating New Pages" if you need to start from the beginning). Type some text on the page, anything you like; you just need something to get started. If youre having trouble being creative today, try typing My husband David is so cool. (Okay, so Im guilty of trying to win cheap points with my husband; but trust me, this is a great trick if you want your spouse, partner, or other significant person in your life to be interested when you show off your first Web page. Simply enter your special persons name in place of mine and youre on your way to creating a site he or she is sure to appreciate.) Although you may be tempted to use the basic formatting options I cover in this chapter, if youre doing a lot of formatting on a site, you can save considerable time using Cascading Style Sheets instead. With CSS you can define styles for things such as headlines, and apply multiple formatting options all at once. You can also change styles and alter the formatting everywhere its applied. Chapter 8 covers CSS in detail. Chapter 2: Setting Up a Web Site with Dreamweaver 43 Creating multiple pages to set links Creating a new page to start a Web site may seem obvious, but consider this: You may want to create a bunch of new pages before you get too far in your development, and you may even want to start organizing the new pages in subdirectories before you have anything on them. Doing so enables you to organize the structure of your site before you start setting links. After all, you cant link to a page that doesnt exist. If you plan to have five links on your front page to other pages in your site, go ahead and create those other pages, even if you dont put anything on them yet. For example, say youre creating a site for your department at a big company. Youre likely to want a few main pages, such as a page about your staff, another about what you do, and a third with general information and resources. At this initial stage, you could create four pages - one for the front page of the site and three others for each of the subsections. With these initial pages in place, you benefit from having an early plan for organizing the site, and you can start setting links among the main pages right away. See Chapter 3 for more tips about Web site planning and organization. Creating a headline Most Web pages have some kind of headline at the top of the page. To make your headline bold, centered, and a large font size, follow these steps: 1. Highlight the text you want to format. 2. In the Properties inspector at the bottom of the page, select the B icon to make the selected text bold. The heading becomes bold. 3. In the Properties inspector at the bottom of the page, select the center icon. The text automatically centers. 4. In the Properties inspector, use the Size drop-down list and select 36. The text changes to font size 36, and you have a headline at the top of your page that looks something like the headline shown in Figure 2-5.