Summary 5

Topic 1: Three different ways to get the fonts you want.

Choosing a font that fits your web page is key to making it look professional. And, there are three different ways you can find said font that you are looking for.The fist way is using the preexisting fonts that re already installed on the device you are using. The second way is to find fonts on a third-party site. A site like Google Fonts would do and all you have to do is link it to your page using the link tag. The third and final way to for you to add a font to your webpage is to use the fonts that are hosted on your web server.

Topic 2: What the text-align propery does.

There are a ton of text properties in HTML and CSS coding. I want to focus in on the text-align ptoperty for this summary. There are four values for the this property and they are left, right, centered and justified. Left will align the text will to the left of the page and this is the usual way text is aligned as it's the easiest way to read. Right will align your text to the right of the page and it makes the text harder to read. Center will center the text so everything will be on the middle of the page,or element, and smaller sentences at the end of a pragraph will be centered as well. Justified is both left and right and is achived by mathematically increasing the word space on a line-by-line basis. This can be troublesome has it can result in white spaces, or rivers, throughout the text.

Topic 3: Using a grid can help with the lay out of you text.

This is because using a grid on your type can provide a rythem and visual flow to the page. The example in the book uses a background image of an verticle 18-px grid to have a guide for lining his text up. First, he lines the text up by using the line-height code and makes the line height 18 pixels to line up with the grid. Next, he adds 4 pixels of padding to the body to push it down so it can align with the text with the grid. Once both of these things are achived, paragraphs typed on a web page will now be aligned and your web page will look more prefessional.