A cascading style sheet or CSS allows you to separate the presentation and content of your web sites, with your content contained in your (X)HTML files and your presentation defined in a CSS. The CSS can be an internal stylesheet defined in the head element of your html file, an external file referenced in the head element, or an inline style defined in an html element.
The Internal Stylesheet
If you use a CSS style in the header element you need to enclose it in a style element, as in:
<head>
<title>Your Page Title<title>
<style type="text/css">
CSS Content
</style>
</head>
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Now that our first WordPress Theme is done, we can start discussing designing your own site. When designing your site, the first thing you need to consider your layout and your background. With CSS these can be two separate things with your background being your page and your layout being your divs that you place and position over the page. Background properties can also be applied to your divs, but then they will be restricted to the divs that contain them. In this tutorial we’ll look at the background properties that can go in the body element of your stylesheet.css file.
Backgrounds Colors
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Tags: background-attachment, background-color, background-image, background-position, background-repeat, web design
There’s nothing like a recession to get you back on track … Many years ago I was tasked with creating and maintaining a website for our department at campus. The result was my first website (co-incidentally, it was a table-based layout, the year being 1999 and Y2K being all the rage). From there the idea of earning some income by doing some web development on the side emerged and poiesis.co.za was registered. Unfortunately, or fortunately, a lucrative job intervened and poiesis.co.za was put on the backburner. It became a small personal website for a while and then a personal collection of bookmarks. In the mean time I developed a couple of content websites as a hobby.
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Tags: web design, web development
