Welcome to the CSS tutorial! Before you begin, you should have some basic understanding of HTML and building web pages. What is CSS anyway and what will it help me do? Over the course of this workshop you will learn the foundations of CSS and be able to create your own style sheet.
Objectives
- Understand what a style sheet is and how it actually styles a web page
- Know how to create a style sheet and link an html document to the style sheet
- Understand the basic building blocks of any style sheet: rules, selectors, properties and values
- Understand how to control the basic appearance of text
- Demonstrate how to customize the appearance of links
- Define background properties
Prerequisites:
You will need a basic understanding of HTML. You may want to take the HTML Basics workshop before you begin. You will need a text editor, such as Notepad and an Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape.
Q: What is Notepad and where do I get it?
A: Notepad is the default Windows text editor. On most Windows systems, click your Start button and choose Programs then Accessories.It should be a little blue notebook.
Mac Users: SimpleText is the default text editor on the Mac. In OSX use TextEdit and change the following preferences: Select (in the preferences window) Plain text instead of Rich text and then select Ignore rich text commands in HTML files. This is very important because if you don't do this HTML codes probably won't work.
One thing you should avoid using is a word processor (like Microsoft Word) for authoring your HTML documents.
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