CSS for Beginners - Learn to Tweak Your Website Design (Webmaster Series)

Learn CSS with detailed instructions, step-by-step screenshots and video tutorials showing CSS in action on real sites Most websites you visit use cascading style sheets (CSS) for everything from fonts selection & formatting to layout & design. Whether you are building Wordpress sites or traditional HTML websites, this book aims to take the complete beginner to a level where they are comfortable digging into the CSS code and making changes to their own site. This book will show you how to make formatting & layout changes to your own website. The book covers the following topics: * Why CSS is important * Classes, Pseudo Classes, Pseudo Elements & IDs * The Float property * Units of Length * Using DIVs * Tableless Layouts, including how to create 2-column and 3-column layouts * The Box Model * Creating Menus with CSS * Images & background images The hands on approach of this book will get YOU building your own Style Sheets. Also included in this book: * Over 160 screenshots and 20,000 words detailing ever step you need to take* Full source code for all examples shown. * Video Tutorials The video tutorials accompanying this book show you: * How to investigate the HTML & CSS behind any website. * How to experiment with your own design in real time, and only make the changes permanent on your site when you are ready. A basic knowledge of HTML is recommended, although all source code from the book can be downloaded and used as you work through the book