Introduction: My overview and memory lane

Ahhh css, in today’s online environment with web development we all must know at-least some CSS. Getting by as a developer today is on one hand easier with all the WYSIWYG editors, CMS and pre-made template websites but what if your want custom development? What if you want to get into the know of creating really well formatted websites? This is where i believe it is now 10 times harder than that of say 8yrs ago!

We now have to have a varied toolbox of such items as Style-sheets, JavaScript, Xhtml and other frameworks to name just a few of the things a good web developer must have a grasp on, today lesson we’ll begin sifting through some CSS or also know cascading style sheets (CSS).

The first time i laid my eyes on CSS was way back around 2000 or HTML 4.0 days, a friend had heard about css and we grabbed the latest copy of PC User and walked through a tutorial of how to change text styles with CSS. Just two lines of css and the text on my HTML web-page changed! I couldn’t believe my eyes, at the time development methods saw images, More >