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Part I. Getting Started on the Web

Part II. Building Blocks of Practical Web Design

Chapter 5. Working with Fonts, Text Blocks, and Lists

Chapter 6. Using Tables to Display Information

Chapter 7. Using External and Internal Links

Chapter 8. Working with Colors, Images, and Multimedia

Best Practices for Choosing Colors

Understanding Web Colors

Using Hexadecimal Values for Colors

Using CSS to Set Background, Text, and Border Colors

Choosing Graphics Software

The Least You Need to Know About Graphics

Preparing Photographic Images

Creating Banners and Buttons

Reducing the Number of Colors in an Image

Working with Transparent Images

Creating Tiled Backgrounds

Creating Animated Web Graphics

Placing Images on a Web Page

Describing Images with Text

Specifying Image Height and Width

Aligning Images

Turning Images into Links

Using Background Images

Using Imagemaps

Integrating Multimedia into Your Website

Part III. Advanced Web Page Design with CSS

Part IV. Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites

Part V. Advanced JavaScript Programming

Part VI. Advanced Website Functionality and Management

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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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