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further changes and enhancements to your site. Here you find an entire

chapter devoted to enhancing your site with Search Engine Optimization

techniques, performing routine site maintenance, and finding out ways to

keep your site up to date so that visitors will be more likely to return to it

again and again.

Icons Used in This Book

To make your experience with the book easier, you’ll find the following icons

in the margins to indicate particular points of interest.

Tip icons alert you to interesting techniques and hints that can save you

time and effort when planning, designing, building, and publishing your

Web sites.

This icon is a friendly reminder or a marker for things to keep in mind when

performing certain tasks. It is also used to alert you to important facts, prin-

ciples, and ideas that can help you become a better Web designer.

Watch out! This icon is the equivalent of an exclamation point. Warnings are

placed next to information that can help you avoid making common mis-

takes. They also give you important directions to help keep you from experi-

encing any Web design nightmares.

Throughout the chapters, you will see this icon next to particularly techni-

cal information. While this kind of geek-talk will be interesting to some, it’s

not essential reading for everyone. That said, please do consider at least

glancing at the text marked with the Technical Stuff icon just in case it

applies to your situation.

This icon alerts you to examples that utilize sample files. You can download

these files at any time from

www.dummies.com/go/webdesignaio.

Where to Go from Here

While this book is written so that more experienced Web designers can skip

around to the parts they need, novice users probably need to start with

Book I, which gives a good foundation of building Web sites, before proceed-

ing to the other minibooks. If you’re one of those experienced designers,

scour the Index for the material you need and then read those sections.

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Read through the Table of Contents to find what interests you. Otherwise,

consider the following jumping-off topics:

⻬ To find out about site planning, check out Book I, Chapter 1.

⻬ For tips on choosing the right Web editor and graphics software pro-

grams, see Book I, Chapter 4.

⻬ For help in creating a mock-up of your Web page, see Book II, Chapter 2.

⻬ To find out about optimizing graphics for the Web, see Book II,

Chapter 3.

⻬ For information about adding text, graphics, and links to your pages,

read Book III, Chapter 1.

⻬ To discover everything you want to know about working with

Cascading Style Sheets, look at Book III, Chapter 3.

⻬ If you want to know more about creating a layers-based layout and

building a navigation system, see Book III, Chapters 4 and 5.

⻬ To find out about Web forms, see Book III, Chapter 7.

⻬ To get help with testing and validation, see Book IV.

⻬ For information on publishing your site, see Book V.

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