At times, it makes more sense to use background images than to insert them directly into the page. And while each element – like your body tag – can hold only one background image, they can be applied to several elements.
Background images, just as the name implies, are part of the BACKGROUND of a website, not part of the actual content. The most common place to add a background image to, is the entire canvas – aka the body tag.
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The three-column layout is probably the second most common layout used for websites. There’s usually a header and a footer – and then some content, maybe a sidebar for navigation, a column in the middle with some content info, and another column with some additional stuff, whatever that may be. What you put inside your columns doesn’t matter – the way to achieve the 3-column layout stays the same.
This type of layout is used a lot, and for good reason. It works.
So let’s start off by looking at the HTML:
A website tends to look more balanced when it’s centered on the monitor, instead of clinging to the left side with lots of white space on the right. This looks even worse with increased resolution. And it’s not that folks will use that white space to make notes…..
So to center your page, wrap your content into a container – a ‘wrapper’ of sorts.
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The FONT tag is dead. Long live CSS! Please help spread the word, too many people STILL have not gotten that memo and merrily use their deprecated font tags (along with the table-based layouts and improper doctypes). But now we all know – no more excuses.
Different browsers have different default styling for headings – the h1, h2, h3, etc. tags. However, with a little bit of CSS, we can style them any way we like.
Most browsers will show links by default in blue and visited links in purple. BOOOORING!!! That, and purple just doesn’t look good on some people.
