Learn CSS In One Day and Learn It Well CSS for Beginners with Hands-On Project The only book you need to start coding in CSS immediately

Learn CSS In One Day and Learn It Well

CSS for Beginners with Hands-On Project

The only book you need to start coding in CSS

immediatelyChapter 1: Introduction

Welcome to the world of CSS. I am so glad and honoured that you picked up

this book. Before we embark on this learning journey together, let us first define

what is CSS.

CSS stands for Cascading Stylesheet and is used for the styling and design of a

website. It is one of the many languages a web programmer uses to create a

website. Other web languages include HTML, Javascript and PHP, just to name

a few.

HTML is concerned with the content and structure of a website. As a website’s

existence is meaningless without content, knowing HTML is essential for

anyone interested in web programming. This book will first start with an

introduction to HTML, covering some of the essential basics you need to know

about HTML. While this coverage is by no means comprehensive, it should be

enough for you to perform most of the HTML tasks necessary. If you are

familiar with HTML, feel free to skip to Chapter 3.

Tools of the Trade

Before we start coding our HTML and CSS pages, let us first look at some of the

recommended tools for doing web programming.

At the most basic level, you only need a web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer,

Chrome, Safari, Firefox) and a text editor (e.g. Notepad) to start coding

websites. However, unless you belong to the school of thought that real

programmers shouldn’t use any programming aid, I strongly encourage you to

use some of the free tools available online to make your coding life easier.

One of the most recommended tool is an advanced text editor that offers syntax

highlighting. Syntax highlighting means the editor will display text in different

colors depending on the purpose of the text. For instance, the editor may use red

color for keywords, blue for comments and green for variables. This simple

feature will make your code much easier to read and debug. If you are on a

Windows machine, I suggest Notepad