How do you make a DEFAULT layout?

Question

Ive been trying to make a default layout but when i try to make one it doesnt show up as DEFAULT, it shows up as something else without the white part & its really confusing. Does anyone know how to make one? if so, i need it step-by-step.

Answer 1

I develop websites. After awhile, I noticed that I use the same stuff on *every web page I write* (like, say, the DTD statement at the top, a few specific META items, a HEAD, TITLE, LINK for a STYLESHEET, a BODY statement, etc...all in a specific form, easily alterable with just a bit of typing for each client. Instead of typing each element over and over I wrote a standard "template" based on all these, and now I just "fill in the blanks" when I get a new client or create a new file for that client. Further, I have templates for not only HTML but also CSS and JAVASCRIPT and PHP files, adding and subtracting as appropriate.

As you might deduce from all this, I hard-code (not using Dreamweaver or some other such automated code-generator) so these templates save me bunches of time!

There are "classic" methods for two- and three-column layouts, liquid and fixed, and one can set these up, also, in CSS files, with named DIVs which on can use over and over in the appropriate HTML file templates...