CSS Web Design For Dummies
Chapter One
CSS Fulfills a Promise
In This Chapter
* Improving HTML with CSS
* Making CSS work with the tools you already use
* Creating practical style sheets
* Avoiding browser compatibility problems
* Getting dramatic with filters
Underneath all Web pages is good old HTML, the markup language that
controls things such as font sizes and color of text, where an image
goes, and info about other elements of the page. HTML is sometimes called
plain HTML, to distinguish it from Web pages built with more sophisticated
techniques such as style sheets. And plain is sure a good word for HTML.
Without help, HTML often produces truly boring pages. Just as unpleasant as
the lackluster pages it produces is the jumble of HTML code that results from
trying to describe an entire Web page using HTML alone. Style sheets to the
rescue.
Improving HTML
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) was a technology recommended by the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1996. An easy way to understand the purpose
of CSS is to view it as an addition to HTML that helps simplify and improve
Web page design. In fact, some CSS effects are not ... read full excerpt from CSS Web Design For Dummies ebook
