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 out. In fact, they have no interfaces at all. They’re mere text—a blissfully simple symphony of letters and numbers and symbols. They’re simple, yes, but not unsophisticated. With HTML tags and CSS properties, you can build a web page that reflects who you are, that shows off your creativity, and announces to the world, "Yes, I built this!"
That’s why, after the brief introduction in Chapter 1, you get your HTML and CSS education off to a proper start by building your first web page. You learn the underlying structure that's common to all pages, as well as all the standard text elements, and you learn how to add headings and links. If you’ve got something to say, in this chapter you learn how to say it with HTML and CSS.