n Special extended characters such as symbols and accented letters require the use of HTML character
entities, which can either be named (as in ") or in decimal format (as in ").
In the next chapter, you learn how to work with Cascading Style Sheets??”also known as CSS??”to style
and lay out your Web pages in Dreamweaver.
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Designing and Crafting Core Pages Part II
All publications, whether on paper or the Web, need a balance of style and
content to be effective. Style without content is all flash with no real
information. Content with no style is flat and uninteresting, thus losing
the substance. Traditionally, HTML has tied style to content wherever possible,
preferring logical tags such as
to indicate emphasis to physical tags
such as for bold. But although this emphasis on the logical worked for many
single documents, its imprecision made achieving style consistency across a
broad range of Web pages unrealistic, if not impossible.
The Cascading Style Sheets specification has changed this situation??”and much
more. As support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) grows, more Web designers
can alter font faces, type size, spacing, and many other page elements with a single
command??”and have the effect ripple not only throughout the page, but also
throughout a Web site.
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