Chapter 2
Adding Links, Lists, and Other Text Tidbits
IN THIS CHAPTER
Marking emphasized and important text
Dealing with quotations
Adding links to your page
Building bulleted and numbered lists
Inserting oddball characters
Perusing a few other semi-useful HTML elements
You see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.
— ROBERT CAILLIAU
In Book 2, Chapter 1, I go through the various HTML tags that enable you to give your web pages the “good bones” of a proper structure. But just as the foundation, framing, and plumbing don’t make a house a home, structural elements such as main, article, and p don't make a web page a home page. Turning an empty house into a cozy home means adding personal touches such as furniture, carpeting, artwork, and a lava lamp or two. The web page equivalent is not only filling ...
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