Chapter 5  Project: Creating a Personal Home Page

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. —Vida Dutton Scudder

This chapter covers

  • Planning and sketching your personal home page
  • Choosing typefaces for your page
  • Adding the header and navigation links
  • Adding the body text

With four chapters under your belt, it's time to put your newfound HTML and CSS knowledge to work by building something substantial. Specifically, this chapter takes you through the process of putting together a simple personal home page. Simple is the operative word here because you don't yet know enough HTML tags and CSS properties to construct anything complex. Fortunately, you know more ...

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