Summary 3 - Chapter 2 & 11 - Tagging & Colors

1. Learns the tags and markups

HTML has a series of tags to help organize, define, and emphasize your text. This brings more style and life to your page before adding CSS even. Knowing how to properly use them is important: making sure all tags that need a pair are opened and closed correctly. Also, make sure you stay within the newest rules of HTML. As some reference books still use code from htm4, which nowadays it is html5 - so some tags have changed.

2. Use your colors wisely!

In CSS, this is where we can define the colors we would like on our webpage. There’s some differences in way you can tag that you must understand, color will change your text but background color will change the box behind the text. Letting you create variations in the look you want. Also, be careful in the order you code your colors, because the last one you write will ALWAYS be the color shown (unless you create divs and ids to seperate you design).

3. Even more to your colors.

Besides the basic of picking a color, you have many ways to do so. CSS lets you use rgb, hex, color names (preset from 147 names), and a hue selector. From there, you can also change the saturation and brightness, which is pretty common in a hue selector. There is also a new code to utilize called “hsl/hsla” - this lets you easily pick the percentages for the hue, saturation, lightness, and sometimes alpha (for transparency).