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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.
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