Part 2.  Working with Images and Styles

HTML tags are vital parts of every web designer's toolbox. You simply must familiarize yourself with all the basic HTML tags—from <a> to <var>—to build a decent page. But even if you memorized all the 100 or so tags in the HTML5 specification, any page you make that consisted only of tags and text would look . . . well, boring. Alas, it would also look utterly generic because the default renderings for things like text, headings, and lists are more or less the same in all modern browsers.

I know you're not reading this book because you want to be boring and generic! So here in Part 2, you expand your web design horizons with tools and techniques that go well beyond the basics. You learn about images, video, and audio in Chapter 6, and you gain advanced-but-practical style-sheet know-how in Chapter 7. In Chapter 8, you learn how to position web page elements like a pro, and Chapter 9 introduces you to the all-important CSS box model, which lets you size elements and add borders and margins around elements.

Finally, in Chapter 10, you summon all your newfound HTML and CSS knowledge and use it to build a slick landing page for a product.