Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS and JavaScript All in One

Chapter 8. Working with Colors, Images, and Multimedia

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:

• How to choose colors for your website that work on the Web

• How to use CSS to set background, text, and border colors

• How to prepare photographs for use online

• How to create banners and buttons

• How to reduce the number of colors in an image

• How to create transparent images

• How to prepare an image for a tiled background

• How to place an image on a web page

• How to describe images with text

• How to specify image height and width

• How to align images

• How to use background images

• How to use imagemaps

• How to use multimedia files

This list might look long, but each of these tasks is short and sweet, and will help you move your web development ...