August 2012
Beginner
619 pages
19h 7m
English
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Chapter 4. Creating a Simple Page: (HTML Overview)
Part I provided a general overview of the web design environment. Now that we’ve covered the big concepts, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and start creating a real web page. It will be an extremely simple page, but even the most complicated pages are based on the principles described here.
In this chapter, we’ll create a web page step by step so you can get a feel for what it’s like to mark up a document with HTML tags. The exercises allow you to work along.
This is what I want you to get out of this chapter:
Get a feel for how markup works, including an understanding of elements and attributes.
See how browsers interpret HTML documents.
Learn the basic structure of an HTML document.
Get a first glimpse of a style sheet in action.
Don’t worry about learning the specific text elements or style sheet rules at this point; we’ll get to those in the following chapters. For now, just pay attention to the process, the overall structure of the document, and the new terminology.
A Web Page, Step by Step
You got a look at an HTML document in Chapter 2, but now you’ll get to create one yourself and play around with it in the browser. The demonstration in this chapter has five steps that cover the basics of page production.
Step 1: Start with content. As a starting ...
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