All About CSS
CSS, which stands for cascading style sheets, helps describe the presentation of different Web pages, according to W3C, the home page of the World Wide Web Consortium. It determines how they will look in different formats, such as different size screens, printers, or smartphones. Think of HTML as the content, and CSS as focusing on the presentation.
There is a helpful CSS tutorial available through CSSTutorial.net. The author promises that his tips will help you write CSS code that works in 99 percent of browsers. There are CSS videos on the site too, for another way to learn.
You can also brush up on your CSS skills at HTML Dog. This site has different levels of tutorial: beginner (which "assumes that you know as much about CSS as you do about the cumulative effects of sea squirt discharge on the brain chemistry of Germanic ammonites"), intermediate, and advanced.
If you need a Web page made ASAP, and you are shaky on your knowledge of CSS coding, there are several programs you can utilize to make the work go faster. One Web development application that specializes in presentation, and works with both HTML and CSS, is Adobe Dreamweaver. The current version of Dreamweaver is CS5. Dreamweaver allows you to see what your Web pages will look like before they go live online. It makes creating sites with CSS easier and more intuitive.
If you have Dreamweaver and want a tutorial showing you how to use it, your first stop should be Adobe's Dreamweaver Development Center, which has many lessons on different aspects of website creation using the program.
These tutorials differentiate between static and dynamic websites. Static Web pages, according to Sharpened.net, are pages in which the content can only be changed or updated by the Web developer. Even if these pages are updated daily by the developer, they are still static; they don't respond to user input or the user's environment. Dynamic pages are constantly changing. This is because they are written using "server side" code. Pages which can tell you the time or temperature in your area, or pages which react to a form you fill out, are dynamic pages. The typical homepage of an individual or organization is a static page.
Another Dreamweaver tutorial is available through Entheos. Here, you can learn about Dreamweaver behaviors (which make your site more interactive) and drop-down menus. You can also incorporate a Web photo album, flash text, and more.
With CSS, your Web pages will look even slicker, and be more versatile too.