Chapter 2  Building Your First Web Page

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it! —William Hutchinson Murray

This chapter covers

  • Learning the basic page structure and elements
  • Learning the most common text elements and styles
  • Creating links

Many of the modern technologies that we have to learn—whether it's building spreadsheets with Microsoft Excel, enhancing images with Adobe Photoshop, or maintaining a music collection with Apple’s iTunes—require us to master complex features bristling with settings and plagued by unintuitive interfaces. So it’s with great pleasure that we come across technologies such as HTML and CSS that have no complicated tools, settings, or interfaces to figure ...

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