Chapter 2. Adding Text to Your Web Pages

True broadband Internet media like streaming video, audio, and high-quality graphics continue to grab the headlines. After all, it's exciting to speculate about the Web replacing your telephone or tapping your keyboard to get movies on demand.

But the Web is primarily woven with words . Sony PlayStation Portable reviews, Brad Pitt gossip, and countless personal blogs about cats still drive people to the Web. As you build Web pages and Web sites, you'll spend a lot of your time adding and formatting text . Understanding how Dreamweaver works with text is vital to getting your message across effectively.

This chapter covers the not-always-simple act of getting text into your Dreamweaver documents. In Chapter 3, you can read about formatting this text so that it looks professionally designed.