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Lesson 4: Creating Pages

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Using Headings

One of the most important structure decisions you can make on a page is chunking. The grouping of text will either attract your reader or cause them to quickly click elsewhere. Even with a captive audience grouping text, topics and images makes it much more efficient to find and use the information provided. (See Lesson 3: Design).

headingsHeadings allow you to visually divide topics on your page. They are arranged in hierarchical order. Heading 1 being the largest and used for titles. Heading 2 for the first topic, Heading 3 for the first subtopic, etc. Examples are listed to the left. Notice that each heading progressively gets smaller and the lower orders sometimes trade boldface for font size.

The use of headings at this point is somewhat prescript; however, once inserted you can change the other attributes such as color, bold, italics, etc. just like other text. Tip: Using headings to separate information makes the transition to Cascading Style Sheets Infinitely easier.

 

Lorem Ipsum - Dummy Text

When laying out a page with headings it is frequently helpful to have a block of text to use as a visual. For centuries the following block of pseudo Latin has been used as a placeholder until the actual text was written and inserted. The word size, line breaks, and punctuation give it a realistic sense of what your real passage will look like.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Check out the links to the left for more on this block of text which has origins to the first century B.C.E.

Now, let's talk about actually inserting, formatting and linking real text.

 

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