CSS Made Easy
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This is a very short article that covers the basics of CSS. Only two pages (short by Webreference standards). It shouldn’t take more than ten minutes or so to read it and try it.
“HTML was originally intended to be used to define the content of a document using tags such as <h1>, <p>, <table> and the browser was to take care of the layout without the use of formatting tags like <font>. As the major browsers (Internet Explorer and Netscape) continued to support more tags it became very difficult to create Web sites where the content was separated from the presentation layout. In other words, the design and content became intertwined making it difficult to make changes.
“The W3 (World Wide Web Consortium) created styles in response. Most modern browsers now support CSS so it’s safe and easy to use. CSS can save you a lot of work when designing a website. Instead of having the same styles in the <head> tags you can have an external style sheet to control the layout and styles of the whole website. This means you can change many elements of the entire website by changing one file!” [ Read more... ]
