Introducing Expression Web—Development Area
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The Development Area
Of the four major components included with the Document window, the development area is where you’ll focus the majority of your attention. When you create a new Web page for the first time (as you’ll see in Chapter 2), the development area appears as a blank white page waiting for you to add structuring components, formatting components, images, animations, and more.
Of course, you can also customize whether various development aids are shown within the development area. For example, assuming you wanted to display rulers and a grid within the development area, you’d need only to place your cursor within the development area and select View > Ruler and Grid > Show Ruler and View > Ruler and Grid > Show Grid, respectively. Selecting both of the options enables both a ruler and a grid within the development area.
Additionally, you may want to set the default page size of the development area. Doing so would allow you to develop your Web pages around a particular screen resolution. To set the page size, again place your cursor within the development area and choose View > Page Size > 760 × 420 (800 × 600, Maximized). You’ll quickly notice that the development area adjusts its width and height (represented by a dashed line) to accommodate the particular page size. The addition of the rulers, grid, and custom page size are highlighted in Figure 1-4.
Figure 1-4: Development area
| Setting a page size is common in Web development. Current statistics show that roughly 54 percent of Internet users browse under a 1024 × 768 screen resolution, followed by 28 percent at 800 x 600, 10 percent at 1280 × 1024, and 4 percent at 1152 × 864. What this means is that as long as you target your Web pages for the least common denominator, or more specifically the option we selected of 760 × 420 (800 × 600, Maximized), roughly 96 percent of your users will be able to see your Web pages without having to scroll horizontally. |
 
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