Chapter 5 covered a variety of basic HTML tags relating to text. In addition, it discussed the usefulness and importance of style sheets in order to cut the amount of individual text coding by providing an overall protocol for the entire page or site. I know I'll be using these, but they were almost all familiar to me through previous experience.
Chapter 6 covers a topic new to me: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). I am familiar with the term and concept, having computer geek friends, but have never constructed my own. I paid close attention to the chapter, so that I could formulate my own CSS instructions for my web site. I was impressed at how many different ways you can manipulate the instructions to change the formatting of the entire site.
Other key information contained in 6 include font formatting tips, like using "graphic text" - images of text used in place of buttons or headers. These can be perfected in digital editing software and saved as images so they are consistent across web browsers and not affected by other font styles. Also addressed are spacing and text alignment commands, borders, and class selectors. Class selectors allow a web designer to create formatting commands for a variety of "classes" in order to cut down on the overall time in coding a page.
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