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Part II. Building Blocks of Practical We... > Chapter 8. Working with Colors, Imag...

Chapter 8. Working with Colors, Images, and Multimedia


WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:

• How to choose colors for your website that work on the Web

• How to use CSS to set background, text, and border colors

• How to prepare photographs for use online

• How to create banners and buttons

• How to reduce the number of colors in an image

• How to create transparent images

• How to prepare an image for a tiled background

• How to place an image on a web page

• How to describe images with text

• How to specify image height and width

• How to align images

• How to use background images

• How to use imagemaps

• How to use multimedia files


This list might look long, but each of these tasks is short and sweet, and will help you move your web development experience from the white background/black text examples so far in this book to more interesting (or at least colorful) examples. But that’s not to say that dark text on a light background is bad—in fact, it’s the most common color combination you’ll find online.


  

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