Web Design All-in-One for Dummies®

Chapter 8. Adding Text, Images, and Links

In This Chapter

• Understanding HTML basics

• Working with semantic markup

• Inserting text and graphics

• Hyperlinking text and graphics to other pages

• Labeling objects in preparation for using CSS

• Making page content accessible with HTML

At this point in the design process, you have already discovered a little bit about HTML coding, syntax, and structure. To complement that knowledge, you've also made several important decisions about the look and feel of your design and have hopefully already mocked up the home page in your preferred graphics software program and presented your design to your Web client for review and approval. In this chapter, you find out how to put all those pieces together into a single HTML document.

To start, you find out about setting up a basic, bare-bones HTML page, which you can use for any Web project. After that, the specifics of your particular Web site come into play. The first couple of times you put a Web site together can certainly feel daunting, to say the least. That feeling of building a Web site from scratch can be similar to the feeling a painter has when looking at a fresh blank canvas. Where should you begin? What should you do first? While no one perfect solution exists, try not to let the options overwhelm you. Instead, focus your energies on building that first page. After the first page is built, constructing the rest of the site should come relatively easily.

In addition to the basics, this chapter also covers ...