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Chapter 2 Web Page Essentials

In this chapter:

Creating HTML5 documents
Understanding document type definitions
Using meta tags
Attaching external documents
Working with the body section
Using CSS for web page backgrounds
Commenting your work

Starting with the essentials

You might wonder what’s meant by this chapter’s title: web page essentials. This chapter will run through everything you need to do with a web page prior to working on the layout and content, including creating the initial documents, attaching external documents to HTML files, ...

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