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The Basics of Building Web Pages and Sites 1
■ Have links unrelated to the main purpose(s) of the Web site.
■ Do not use a spellchecker.
All of these faux pas have occurred, countless times, on real Web sites. Several examples of bad
Web sites may currently be found at such locations as:
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www.webpagesthatsuck.com
■ www.worstoftheweb.com
■ http://www.bad-websites.com/
Summary
This chapter has explained the background and development of Web browsers and reviewed their
various features. This chapter also touched upon Web protocols and gave a very basic outline of
a Web page using HTML tags.
The purpose of a Web browser is to fetch, decode, and display content from hypertext doc-
uments. As the content of Web sites became more sophisticated as the result of the develop-
ment of more complex audio and graphics programs, the Web browser technologies become
equally sophisticated to be able to fetch, decode, and display the contents rapidly, accurately,
and securely. The development of one fed upon the other technologies.
Chapter 2 briefly reviews some popular Web design applications, discusses designing for the
mobile Web, and makes suggestions for additional freeware/shareware graphics applications.
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