Today in web design we covered the basics of CSS coding, Gemma explained that CSS is like the icing on a cupcake, I like this analogy as it sheds some clarity on the whole web design process...
HTML forms the basis of the page, CSS is the styling and PHP/JQUERY would be the extra fancy bits on top.
CSS rules have a selector, property and a value
e.g:
p { - this is the selector (in this case paragraph) it states which
section the rule applies to.
colour : #000000;
font-family: Arial; - colour, font-family and font-size are examples of properties
font-size: 14px; - #000000, Arial and 14px are examples of values for those
} properties.
This helps to break down CSS coding and make sense of it, I found that I was able to alter all of the above properties in code view by the end of the session, although Dreamweaver makes things a lot easier than this, It is beneficial to be able to understand the code should there be a problem or alterations to be done.
This website is really useful, it is designed for kids but there is a lot to learn for beginners too...
Lissa Explains Website - HTML for kids and beginners
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