In spite of the old saw about a picture being worth a thousand words, often words are the right tool for the job. When you want to label a button, build a menu-based navigation system, or provide how-to instructions for a particular task—it’s time for text.

Edge is rooted in HTML5, so it gives you the same properties and text-handling features that you’d find in other web-building tools like Adobe Dreamweaver. That means you won’t have all the typographic features that you’d find in a page layout program or a more complex graphics program like Flash. As you’ll learn in this chapter, you do get your choice of fonts, and you can set the size, color, and alignment. In addition, you’ll learn how to apply transforms and effects just like those used with graphics and photos. Along the way, you’ll learn how to animate your text, giving it a little bounce. Links are important to any web page. This chapter explains how to import and manage HTML text that includes links on specific words. HTML has a nu....