How to make a website » CSS http://www.mademyownwebsite.com Practical advice for those building their own website Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:27:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 What is css? http://www.mademyownwebsite.com/getting-started/what-is-css/ http://www.mademyownwebsite.com/getting-started/what-is-css/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:27:13 +0000 chris http://www.mademyownwebsite.com/?p=57 CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is some code that can be used on a website to control the way that a website displays. In its ideal, purist form it can mean that you can simply change the code contained in one file and it will change the way a website looks. I believe that sometime in the future this will be the reality for all websites. It is anyones guess when that will happen.

Now to get a little more realistic. It is true that some purists have been able to make this dream a reality even today and more and more people are starting to use CSS in their websites. However the people who build browsers (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc) can’t agree on how CSS is supposed to work. This means that website builders (at least the very expensive professional ones) have to spend hours and hours working on little ways to make CSS work for everyone.

I really want to encourage you to use CSS but you will probably find that you have to use a combination of the old ways of building websites and CSS. We will cover this in more detail in this blog from time to time.

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