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In Typography with CSS in Dreamweaver, author Joseph Lowery dives deep into key typographic concepts. The course introduces Dreamweaver type tools and shows how to perform basic text modifications, establish the appropriate type unit, integrate custom web fonts, and apply drop shadows, gradients, and other effects. The course also provides in-depth tutorials on structuring text with headings, paragraphs, columns, and lists, and offers a preview of Adobe's proposed CSS Regions. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

    Modifying type in the CSS Styles panel
    Understanding the different type measurement unit options
    Allowing users to set page type size
    Employing web-safe fonts
    Exploring CSS 3 typeface options
    Setting up @font-face
    Applying color and transparency to type
    Styling the font weight, case, and letter spacing
    Inserting drop caps
    Rotating text with CSS transform
    Laying out text in multiple columns
    Incorporating ordered and unordered lists
    Targeting lists items with the nth-child selector