Sams Teach Yourself Internet and Web Basics All in One

It's easy ”too easy, in fact ”to begin thinking that a Web page is made up of three basic parts : text, images, and links. Although that's generally true, it tends to imply that text is for content, images are for show, and links are for action.

The facts are a little muddier than that. Text is first and foremost a vehicle for information, but when text is dressed up in a fancy font or cool color , it contributes both content and design ”feeding two brain hemispheres for the price of one. Similarly, organizing text into a bulleted or numbered list affects both content and style.