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You can use the sidebar for additional information. If you choose to change the information from page to pages, then you will need to make this an editable region.

dandelions on the meadow © Maria Brzostowska #616050.

The First Dandelion

Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass--innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
Source: "Leaves of Grass," by Walt Whitman

 

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Dandelion Meadow Template

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The Dandelion Meadow template uses one of the Site Templates offered on our sister site Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web - the Two Equal Column Left Fixed Width to 1024px  - as a starting point.

A background image added to the #contentWrapper allows for two equal height columns.

Masthead

The masthead image is 800px wide by 200 pixels high. The photo is one offered on FreeWebPageHeaders. If you choose to use the image, the credit at the bottom must remain in place. There is a large selection of headers to choose from. The image is a background for the #header div. The site name is plain text with style rules in the external style sheet. 

You could also create an image for the site name if you wanted to use a fancier font-family.

Top Navigation

If you have a small site, the top navigation should work OK. If you have a larger site, then you can add the left side navigation as a sectional menu and use the top menu for the main pages.

Left Navigation

The vertical menu on the Dandelion Meadow template uses Arrow Green Vertical Menu by Dynamic Drive. If you want the menu to change from section to section, then you will need to make it an editable region.

Images

Classes have been included to float images both right and left as well as centered (shown below) on the page.  The image within the content of this page has a drop shadow added using an graphics editor. All images you insert should be resized to the size you want displayed NOT resized by changing the width and height within the html code.

The image used on the bottom of the page is a jpg image repeated horizontally across the entire bottom of the page. If you choose to use it, you much purchase the image spring meadow © Monika 3 Steps Ahead #11343079. There are a number of photos by this same artist which could be used for a bottom page border.

Most of the images used as examples are from Fotolia.com.

Field of dandylions © Hedgehog #31472737 .

License Information:

This contribution is licensed to you under Creative Commons by the owner, Pat Geary. You must attribute the template design to Expression Web Tutorials & Templates by the link in the footer or the copyright statement meta tag.