Personally, I don't use anchor links a lot since I typically don't design long web pages. That said, they are still very useful and perfect for certain types of web sites. Places I find anchor links frequently used are government sites.

For this lesson, we'll start with an HTML page that already has content and just needs the anchors added. I'm using the printed version of one of our Flash tutorials.

We'll start out by adding some new links at the top of the page and then create anchor links to each corresponding item on the page.

Part of the remit of the Dreamweaver Task Force is to work with the online Dreamweaver community to encourage and assist in the adoption of web standards. Whilst a lot of our effort has been to work alongside Macromedia to help shape the support for standards within the Dreamweaver product line (after all, there’s no point us tell you guys to use standards if the tool makes it hard to do so), there are some things it’s not reasonable to expect the Dreamweaver engineers to tackle right away.

Our Dreamweaver templates can be edited in Dreamweaver 3, 4, MX or 8. The Dreamweaver templates come with a DWT file for making global changes and where necessary LBI library files. Those that have PNG files for editing in Fireworks are indicated in the template description

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