Basic CSS

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is a type of stylesheet language that defines how a document would look like. It commonly used to style a website or documents written in markup languages such as HTML and XHTML. Even though HTML can be used to define how your site would look, web designers still find HTML very cumbersome to work with.

As websites started to get more sophisticated, it become more complex to write and maintain websites in HTML. With CSS, web designers have more control over stylistic capabilities of a document without the complexity of HTML. This allows web designers to focus more on the design aspects of a website rather than coding.

Having a basic understanding and knowledge of CSS will allows you to change the look of any website or blogs as and when as you like. Nowadays, it is very getting very common for webmasters to download free templates and themes for uses. However, one downside to these free templates and themes is that there is no exclusivity. Most likely, the template or theme that you are going to use for your site is being used by tens if not hundreds of other webmasters. To counter this, you have to edit and change the look of the free templates or themes. Many templates and themes use CSS in their presentation and it is important for you to master some basic CSS skills in order to edit or change them.

Here’s a list of sites which you can learn basic and advance CSS skills:

• CSSBasics.com
• W3.org
• W3Schools.com

If you have a site which have tutorials for basic and advance CSS, feel free to contact me for inclusion to the list. However, acceptance may depend on the quality of your site.