Web Design All-in-One For Dummies

From Web Design All-in-One For Dummies by Sue Jenkins

In designing Web sites, you use a lot of code, including HTML or XHTML, and, if you’re good, you use just enough color to keep the pages interesting without being too distracting.

HTML/XHTML Codes for Web Design

If you’re designing Web sites, you’re going to use HTML and/or XHTML — after all, you need to use some type of language so that your Web sites can communicate, right? The table here gives you HTML/XHTML tags and tells you what each does.

Tag	Description
<!--...-->	Defines a comment
<!DOCTYPE>	Defines the document type
<a>	Defines an anchor
<b>	Defines bold text, though <strong> is better
<blockquote>	Defines a long quotation
<body>	Defines the body element
<br>	Inserts a single line break
<caption>	Defines a table caption
<cite>	Defines a citation
<code>	Defines computer code text
<div>	Defines a section in a document
<em>	Defines emphasized text
<font>	Deprecated. Defines text font, size, and color
<form>	Defines a form
<frame>	Defines a frame within a frameset
<frameset>	Defines a set of frames
<h1> to <h6>	Defines header 1 to header 6
<head>	Defines information about the document
<hr>	Defines a horizontal rule
<html>	Defines an HTML document
<i>	Defines italic text, though <em> is better
<iframe>	Defines an inline subwindow (frame)
<img>	Defines an image
<input>	Defines an input field
<label>	Defines a label for a form control
<li>	Defines a list item
<link>	Defines a resource reference
<map>	Defines an image map
<meta>	Defines meta information
<noframes>	Defines a noframe section
<noscript>	Defines a noscript section
<ol>	Defines an ordered list
<p>	Defines a paragraph
<pre>	Defines preformatted text
<script>	Defines a script
<select>	Defines a selectable list
<span>	Defines a section in a document
<strong>	Defines strong text
<style>	Defines a style definition
<sub>	Defines subscripted text
<sup>	Defines superscripted text
<table>	Defines a table
<td>	Defines a table cell
<textarea>	Defines a text area
<th>	Defines a table header
<title>	Defines the document title
<tr>	Defines a table row
<ul>	Defines an unordered list

Color Palette for Web Design

You want the Web sites you design to pop with color, but to do that, you have to use the right codes. This figure shows the Web-tested, Web-approved hexadecimal codes for colors.