CSS for Beginners

CSS for Beginners

Learn CSS with detailed instructions, step-by-step screenshots and video tutorials showing CSS in action on real sites

Most websites you visit use cascading style sheets (CSS) for everything from fonts selection & formatting to layout & design. Whether you are building Wordpress sites or traditional HTML websites, this book aims to take the complete beginner to a level where they are comfortable digging into the CSS code and making changes to their own site. This book will show you how to make formatting & layout changes to your own website.

The book covers the following topics:

* Why CSS is important

* Classes, Pseudo Classes, Pseudo Elements & IDs

* The Float property

* Units of Length

* Using DIVs

* Tableless Layouts, including how to create 2-column and 3-column layouts

* The Box Model

* Creating Menus with CSS

* Images & background images

The hands on approach of this book will get YOU building your own Style Sheets. Also included in this book:

* Over 160 screenshots and 20,000 words detailing ever step you need to take

* Full source code for all examples shown.

* Video Tutorials

The video tutorials accompanying this book show you:

* How to investigate the HTML & CSS behind any website.

* How to experiment with your own design in real time, and only make the changes permanent on your site when you are ready.

A basic knowledge of HTML is recommended, although all source code from the book can be downloaded and used as you work through the book.