Cascading Style Sheets I

Cascading Style Sheets is a technology which offers fine control of many aspects of the appearance of text and other elements of web sites. CSS can often make the difference between an ugly, unusable web site and a web that is beautiful, elegant and a pleasure to use. This class will cover only the basics of CSS, but will cover the basics thoroughly. The goal is for you to become completely clear about the basics of CSS, so that you are confident and prepared to learn more.

Class Outline:

1. Intro
2. Why CSS is important
3. What CSS can do
4. What CSS is not able to do
5. Advantages of CSS
6. Disadvantages of CSS
7. How CSS works
8. CSS operates on elements of the page
9. What "cascading" means
10. The fundamental structure of a CSS command
11. The three ways to use style sheet commands
12. How cascading works in practice

Class Materials:

PDF of entire class

examples in .zip file

examples folder