Chapter 5: Text Pages Are Tried and True

In This Chapter

Tooling up a document for the first time

Putting templates to work for you

Starting page layout at the top

Writing titles and headings with a purpose

Building better bodies for your pages

Fortifying your paragraphs

Giving your lists the proper structures

Linking to your Web site and beyond

Templates Build Strong Bones
Page Layout from Top to Bottom
What's in a Name? That's Up to You
- Titles -- bait the hook with something juicy
- Headings -- here's the beef
- The neutron-bomb test
- The design-versus-information squabble
Building Better Document Bodies
- How much text is okay?
- Composition is a balancing act
- Pruning leggy pages
- The bottom line on page bodies
Building Strong Paragraphs
Listward, Ho! Using Lists Online
Hooking Up Your Pages
- Relative links (to pages within your Web site)
  - How does that link do that?
  - The tension of extensions
- Absolute links (to the world outside your Web site)
- Choose your hyperlinks with care
Finishing with Footers
- Catching the copyright
- Counting coup -- versions, dates, times
  - This (or next?) year's model
  - What (or which) time is it?
Fishing for Feedback?
Using Comments for Posterity (And Sanity)