Preface
What This Book Is About and Why You’ll Find It Useful
This book is about using HTML to put your stuff on the Web. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the language that tells a web browser what to do with the text, images, and other media—the stuff—you want others to see. There are good ways to use these tools, and there are bad ways. Web browsers are smart application programs. They can take badly written HTML and still present a respectable-looking web page. However, there are still very good reasons for learning how to write good markup. This book is about creating web pages that
• Are pleasing to look at and fun to play with
• Are friendly to search engine robots
• Are easy to update and maintain over time
The Web can be understood ...
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