It is time to take your web designing skills to the next level with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). They are a way to control the look and feel of your HTML documents in an organized and efficient manner. With CSS you will be able to:

• Add new looks to your old HTML
  
• Completely restyle a web site with only a few changes to your CSS code
  
• Use the "style" you create on any webpage you wish!
  

A stylesheet can, and should be, completely separate from your HTML documents. When you have mastered CSS and HTML, you will be able to separate your web site's design and formatting (CSS) from the content (HTML).

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Before you begin the CSS Tutorial we suggest that you check to see you meet the following recommendations:

• You have used HTML in the past
  
• You know the basic HTML tags and vocabulary.
  
• You want to be a better web designer!
  

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
Styles define how to display HTML elements
Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem
External Style Sheets can save a lot of work
External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files

CSS defines HOW HTML elements are to be displayed.

Styles are normally saved in external .css files. External style sheets enable you to change the appearance and layout of all the pages in a Web site, just by editing one single file!