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So, you’re ready to take the plunge and begin to learn how to build your own
web pages and sites? Fantastic! We’ve got quite a ride ahead, so I hope you’re
feeling adventurous.
This information is an excerpt from my recently released book, Build Your Own Web Site
The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd edition [1].
In the following pages, I’ll show you how to set up your computer—be it PC or Mac—so that
you’re ready to build a site.
Then, we’ll meet XHTML and walk through the details of how to structure a web page
correctly. In the process, we’ll play around with elements, comments, and symbols, and
we’ll talk about the concept of nesting. It might sound complex, but it’s not! In fact, by the
end of that discussion, you’ll have a working web page that displays text, links, an image
and even a quote!
Finally, we’ll turn to the topic of Cascading Style Sheets, which we’ll use to change the way elements of your web page look. We’ll
discuss the different ways in which you can use styles to control the way your page looks before creating our own .css file and using
it—as well as tools like selectors and spans—to spruce up our web page’s headings, text, and so on.
Learn HTML and CSS: An Absolute
Beginner’s Guide
Don’t worry if some of these terms are unfamiliar—this excerpt, like the book itself, assumes that you have no knowledge about
building web pages. The information I’ll present here basically comprises the first three chapters of the book—later chapters go on to
show you how to build forms, optimize graphics for the Web, publish your site, and soup it up with plug-in tools such as blogs, image
galleries, and more—the Table of Contents [2] has all the details.
But now, let’s start to set up your computer so that you’re ready to build your first web page. Don’t forget: you can grab these
instructions in PDF format [3] if you’d like to save them for reading offline.