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7. Enhancing the Website

Adrian W. West

(1)Colyton, UK

In this chapter we will enhance the website that we produced in Chapter 6. The improvements consist of measures to make the site accessible to all browsers including the obsolescent Internet Explorer 8. Font sizes will be specified in percentages instead of point sizes to provide a more flexible way of adjusting fonts. Menus will be given tags that can be styled so that in future chapters, the menus can be converted to attractive buttons instead of bulleted underlined links.

In the latest HTML5 code, semantic tags replace some of the more complex <div> tags. These improved tags will ...

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