Web Design Playground, Second Edition

3 Adding Structure to Your Page

This chapter covers

• Dividing page text into paragraphs and sections
• Adding numbered lists
• Building bulleted lists

You learned in Chapter 2 that you can create an effective web page by typing some text and then using headings and elements such as strong and em to make the text more readable and easier to understand. Headings are crucial page devices, not only because they help the reader see where one part of the page ends and another begins, but also because they give the reader a general sense of the page hierarchy. All this falls under the general rubric of page structure, and that’s the focus of this chapter.

Thinking about the structure of your web page is important because a wall of unstructured text is ...