Designing with CSS

Basically, there are 2 separate ways that you can use a cascading style sheet. The 1st way is by using the style sheet externally. Just upload the css file that you have downloaded or designed, and then reference that file in the HTML code for the web page you are designing by placing some code within the header tag of the web page. There are many different tutorial websites where you can learn how to make the code to reference an external style sheet.

 

Furthermore, you can make your style sheet internally by coding the style of certain kinds of tags within the head tag of the web page itself rather than saving the style sheet as an external file.

 

Additionally, you can use what is called inline styles, where you specify the style of a specific element inside the web page so that the style will apply to just that particular tag and not all of the tags on the web page.

 

Whatever you should decide to do, as a website designer make sure that you become familiar with cascading style sheets and use them, especially if you do a lot of web design projects. You should start a collection of your own library of style sheets, either by designing them on your own or by downloading them from a website that specializes in css templats.

 

With these style sheets in hand your job as a web designer will definitely be faster and more efficient. They will enable you to design web pages very fast without having to focus so much on the design.  You can then demonstrate to your customers the many different sample designs of the css web pages that you have created by just changing a single line of code and using a different .css file each time.

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