What is a cascading style sheet

According to W3schools, "a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style to Web documents". To be a little more specific, CSS is the easy way to manage color, fonts, text, spacing, layout and apperance of a html document. CSS has also replaced tables as the method of layout (design) to the pages in your web site. CSS is the easy way to remodel, reorganize or repair your site. With a cascading style sheet, you can make changes to your entire web site simply by changing a line in your style sheet.

Learning CSS

Like all things new, css may be a little intimidating at first. But, if you're serious about web authoring, learning how to create a cascading style sheet is a must. You've probably already took a peek at a css file and thought "yeah right". Well, its not as difficult as it looks. Once you've created your style sheet you'll be amazed at how easy it was to learn and how much easier it made it to alter and edit your web site.

How does CSS work?

To take advantage of this new technology you first have to create a style sheet and save it as a .css file. Once you have created your cascading style sheet and saved it as, "yourstyle.css", you upload it to your root directory. Next, you place a link to "yourstyle.css" in the head section of each page in your web site. Thats it!

Linking to your style sheet

To link to your new style sheet simply add this single string of code into the head section of your web page.
<link href="yourstyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> .

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