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An introduction to rapid web-development with CSS
Written by: James Gregory
Source: Shipyard
Skill Level: Novice

So what's it all about?

Surprisingly, W3C are pretty concise on this point:

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents

And that's pretty much it. You're probably all thinking "I can do that already. I've got my trusty <font> tags and what more is there to page layout than using tables?".

I know where you're coming from, and I once recited that mantra myself. There are two other advantages that CSS gives you, and they're pretty important once you start working with them:

CSS provides a clear division between your content and formatting. Re-designing the page doesn't mean re-writing all your HTML.
There are more formatting directives available to you in CSS

Before I give you the how-to, I'd like to point you at some really neat examples of what you can do with it. This is exciting stuff!

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