Chapter 4  Formatting Your Web Page

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. —Neville Brody

This chapter covers

  • Styling the text font, size, and style
  • Aligning and indenting paragraphs
  • Adding text and background colors

You now know how to display important and emphasized text, create links and headings, and display items in bulleted or numbered lists, but although these important techniques give your web page a bit of visual interest, they won't win you any design awards. To get people to sit up and take notice of your page, you need to concentrate on the CSS side of things for a bit, and that's what you'll do in this chapter. First, you'll learn a few ways to style your web page text, including specifying the typeface ...

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