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WEB DESIGN BELLS AND WHISTLES – PART 2/3
October 11, 2010
Paul Morgan – NYC, NY
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company
WEB DESIGN BELLS AND WHISTLES – PART 2/3
In Part 1 of this series, we covered how so-called bells and whistles (B&W) in web design enhance the web site you produce.
Here in Part 2, we continue by exploring one of the tools that make it easier for you to spice up pages with B&W: cascading style sheets.
Web Design B&W Tool #1 – Cascading Style Sheets
When there was only HTML to design web pages with, the options for prettying up a page were very limited.
For instance, if you wanted to introduce some color into your pages using HTML tags alone (meaning no “cheating” through the use of external graphic files), you could play around with colors by:
* changing the default color of text fonts from black to some other color through the color attribute of the <FONT> tag;
* changing the background color of the document from the default white to some other color through the bgcolor attribute of the <BODY> tag;
* changing the background color of table cells by changing the bgcolor attribute of the <TD> tag (which is the innermost tag in a hierarchy of tags comprising an HTML table: <TABLE>, <TR>, <TD>).
With the advent of cascading style sheets (CSS), web design options for using colors to enhance your page widened. Your color tweaking ability is no longer limited to just the font, document background, and table cell background. In addition to what you could do with traditional HTML, you could introduce color in almost every other element found on your web page, such as:
* headings (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 tags), both foreground and background colors;
* paragraph text, both foreground and background
* borders surrounding headings, paragraphs, page divisions (using the <DIV> tag)
* horizontal rule (remember the <HR> tag?)
Thanks to CSS, your web design capability is not limited to just color tweaking either. You have more web design tricks up your sleeve that were denied you by HTML. For example:
* Borders: You can opt to enclose an entire section of your page with border lines on all 4 sides, any 3 sides, any 2 sides, or even any one side. That is just for starters. You can choose any of these border styles: solid, dashed, dotted, inset, outset, groove, ridge. You can also choose to hide borders, or use none at all.
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