Simply an amazing CSS tutorial if you ask me. Straight forward and to the point, this makes a great starting place for those who are wanting to get into CSS for the first time.

An Introduction To CSS

CSS is the abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheet. A style sheet simply holds a collection of rules that we define to enable us to manipulate our web pages.

CSS can be applied to our pages in many ways, however the most powerful way to employ CSS rules is from an external cascading style sheet. When used in this manner the full power of CSS can be brought to control the design and appearance of our work from a single controlling location, which makes it easy to update our site on a global basis.

It would be foolish, impracticable and probably impossible to write an article that covers all aspects of CSS. What I would like to do is take you on a journey, a journey that will begin with the simple things. We will look at how CSS rules are structured and how we can optimize our style sheets by using shorthand within our rules. We’ll investigate many aspects of CSS throughout our journey. I hope you stick along for the ride. [Read the rest]