Chapter 4. Adding Text To Your Pages

The main message of most Web sites is conveyed by the site's text, and a major part of your job in working with any site will be adding, modifying, and styling that text. Dreamweaver gives you the tools you need to effectively put text on your pages and get your message across.

When you add text, you need to deal with two different aspects of the text: its structure and its presentation . Structural elements are things like paragraphs, headings, lists, and the like; presentation is how the text looks, including things like the font, font size , text color , and so on. Most sites these days separate the structure and the presentation. Structure is about organizing the content on the page, and presentation is concerned with making the content look good.

In this chapter, we'll concentrate on getting text onto your page, and how to apply structure using headings and lists. We'll also cover using basic HTML text styles to change the look of your text. You'll learn how to more precisely style text and present it using Cascading Style Sheets in Chapter 5.