We are going to explain about CSS, and we will start off explaining about External Style Sheets, these are saved on the web server but are stored separately from the web page itself. This is not to be confused with embeded style sheets, where the styles are actually placed inside the Web Page. You can use Notepad or Edit Plus or Dream Weaver to Write CSS.
So why do you want to use CSS or Cascading Style Sheets, well there are various reasons, some people want to write a web page using pretty much just CSS on its own, this can be done but we are not going to talk about this here... What we are going to talk about is using a style sheet to affect the look of a web page or even a whole load of web pages..
Infact we are going to write a series of pages on how to use CSS to affect how your web pages look, we will start off very simply and then very gradually introduce various fearures of CSS, links to the various pages on CSS will be on this page, to follow the progress of these pages come here first and the n follow the various html links you find on this page about Simple lessons in Cascading Style Sheets.. What is the intention of this series of pages, well it is simple to teach how to use Casacading Style Sheets in an easy to understand way, that is easy to grasp. We are not going to teach CSS by giving you tones of examples to copy or type in, no,,, instead we will introduce small simple concepts in small chunks that are easy to understand in a few minutes.. simple really