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Chapter 5. Putting Text on the Page

In This Chapter

• Adding text to your page

• Choosing and editing fonts

• Understanding CSS

• Creating an external style sheet

Adding text to your Web page requires more than just typing on a page. You must carefully plan your Web pages so that search engines (and viewers) can easily find relevant content on your Web site. In this chapter, you discover fundamentals of text formatting for your Web pages, from the basics of font size and font family, to spell checking your text, to implementing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Because you can assign type properties quickly and update several instances in a few easy steps with CSS, CSS is viewed as the most efficient and preferred method of applying text attributes on a Web page. When you create text for the body of your page, include keywords that provide descriptions of your site's content. This makes your page more relevant to the search engine and the viewer.

Note

As a default, Dreamweaver formats all text on your page with CSS, which is the standard for formatting a styling text. In previous versions of Dreamweaver, you still had the option to enable and use archaic <font> tags to format text if you so chose; this option has been removed from the CS4 preferences. Now, formatting with font tags can only be done by manually inserting <font> tags by choosing Insert

Adding Text

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