Paragraphs in Web Design Scripting

Series Summary

Designing a website with a professional program like Dreamweaver can be a daunting task. Even programs designed for the casual user such as Microsoft's FrontPage can be difficult to use, with tricky instructions and features that can be hard to figure out. Programming a web page from scratch, however, with a web design scripting language is the hardest yet, but getting a fully customized and optimized website often requires creating the page from the bottom. In this free web design video series, artist and web designer Bobbi Lindaman teaches basic HTML for designing a custom web page. Lindaman covers how to design a simple web page with texts, lists, tables, headers and bullet points. These videos offer visual instruction on using HTML tags and scripting a web page from scratch. Changing text colors, fonts and sizes in HTML will never be easier. Setting up background images, transparent GIFs and tiled pictures can customize the most basic of web designs.

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to learn how to add paragraphs to our page. And we have in our body, a page title and I'm going to go ahead and start to add text. And so to start a paragraph you need an angle bracket and then just the letter "P" another angle bracket and then you type the text of your paragraph and it can be just whatever and then if you want to add another paragraph, just hit return. Start another angle bracket with another "P" and you can keep going and that's going to give you a line break. And anytime you want to start a new paragraph in formatting your text, just keep going like that. We're going to save that and then preview it over here. And there we go. And you can see that the "P" kind of acts as a return and there's no real space between these two lines. It's not like there's an actual line in between these. It's just showing you that there's a new paragraph started there. And so the "P" paragraph tag is one of those special ones that you don't have to have an end bracket because it just kind of expects you to keep going and start a new paragraphs and you don't. You can, it's not going to effect anything if you take this on the back and put a slash "P" to kind of close it off. You know, it'll still come up just the same but you just don't have to."