Lab 3 Relection

     The third lab was about creating links on our HTML page to other web pages in addition to other small things. To make this lab we were back to using Dreamweaver. After creating a new HTML file we changed the background color of the page to any color of of choosing. The way we did this was creating the <styles> tag in between the <head> and using the CSS selector 'body' to edit the 'background-color'. After choosing the background color the proper heading for a lab was set but with an exception. Due to the background color being a non-white color the text color needed to be changed in order to be readable. The way we did this was similar to how the background color was changed, the CSS selector of the heading tags was used in <styles> and the 'text-color' was changed for all headings to be a readable color.
     Now came the main event of the lab, making links out of text and images. The way we made links was by using the <a> tag, or anchor tag. Text or images were put between the anchor tags to make them clickable links. The anchor tag has an attribute called 'href' that can be set equal to the url you want the link to redirect users to. We used the anchor tag to make a total of 6 links to 3 sites. Two links - one image and one text- was to our blogs, the other two - again one image and one text - was to w3schools, and finally the last two links were to techtech.us. The links were tested and if they worked they were uploaded to the server.
     These skills are important to a web designer because a web designer should know how to navigate their users to specific pages from the current page. A web site is not a single page, rather, it is a collection of pages. Being able to use links helps ensure the user will be able to access all pages in a website if they desire. For example, you can use links so that at any point during the experience the user can link back to the homepage and not have to click the back button multiple times in the browser if they were deep in exploration. In the end, links make your website more clean and helps the user to understand how to navigate through a site.

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