lecture two

styles and text formatting

Knowing how to work with styles is an essential part of being a web designer and this lecture will introduce you to the basic principles. We will illustrate the application of styles by handling text, which is the most important part of any web page. You will learn how to use styles, fonts and colour to tell the browser how you want particular tags to look. You will also find out the importance of choosing good fonts and text styles to make reading your page as easy as possible for your audience.

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The page on styles and style sheets is required reading before you attend the real lecture or follow the virtual lecture.

online materials

• Styles and style sheets
• Colours
• How text is handled
• Choosing fonts and text styles
• Block-level tags: <p>, headings and more
• Inline tags
• The <br /> and <hr /> tags
• Lists
• The <pre> tag
• Special characters

Remember you can see a printer-friendly (text-only) version of this lecture if you want to print it off.

Before moving on to lecture 3 you should check your progress with the self-test.

reference pages

The following reference pages are relevant to this lecture. Remember you can reach these pages at any time through the resources page. Each will open in the second browser window.

• A selection of colour names and codes
• A list of special characters
• A list of all available style sheet properties and other features