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Chapter 1: The Least You Need to Know about HTML, CSS, and the Web
font selection, use of color for text and backgrounds, positioning of text
and other elements on the page, and (as the old Ronco ad intones) “much,
much more.”
You delve into CSS in detail in Part III of this book, but we cover bits and
pieces of CSS throughout the book as appropriate for the subject matter at
hand. You can build a Web site without using CSS (using CSS makes more
work), but it’s the right tool for precise control over look and layout!
Images in HTML Documents
Adding an image to any HTML document is easy. Careful and well-planned
use of images adds greatly to Web pages. Chapter 7 shows how to grab
images from files. Chapter 9 shows how to use complex markup to posi-
tion and flow text around graphics. Along the way, you also discover how
to select and use interesting and compelling images to add both allure and
information to your Web pages.
Links and navigation tools
Web page structure should help visitors find their way around collections
of pages, look for (and hopefully, find) items of interest, and get where they
most want to go quickly and easily. Links provide the mechanism to bring
people into your Web pages, so Chapter 6 shows how to
✓ Reference external items or resources
✓ Jump from one page to the next
✓ Jump around inside a page
✓ Add structure and organization to your pages
The importance of structure and organization increases in relation to
the amount of information that you want to present to your visitors.
Navigation tools (which establish standard mechanisms and tools for moving
around inside a Web site) provide ways to create and present your Web page
(and site) structure to visitors as well as mechanisms for users to grab and
use organized menus of choices
When you add everything up, your result should be a well-organized set of
information and images that are easy to understand, use, and navigate.
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