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Web Design Playground, Second Edition
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Web Design Playground, Second Edition

by Paul McFedries
February 2024
Beginner
440 pages
10h 39m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Web Design Playground, Second Edition

2 Building Your First Web Page

This chapter covers

  • Learning the basic page structure and elements
  • Learning the most common text elements and styles
  • Making a page easier to read with headings
  • Creating links to other web pages

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 Music—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 out. In fact, they have no interfaces at all. They’re mere text—a blissfully ...

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