Chapter . Work With Text

Even if you include fancy graphics or podcasts on your site, the text is the heart of your Web site and is worthy of your attention. In this section, I cover a grab bag of techniques that all relate to working with text—improving its look, avoiding issues with high-ASCII characters, and creating hyperlinks.

Make Text Sparkle

iWeb’s professionally developed templates are nice, but you may want to customize the look of your text, perhaps in order to make your page stand out more. For example, the White template that I’ve used for my example site is quite drab, using gray text everywhere. Although I don’t want to overdo it, I’d like to add pizzazz to my pages by modifying text colors and styles, and applying effects such as ...

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