Introduction: Creating a Simple CSS Driven Website

Many web developers and usability experts have touted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as a revolutionary improvement to website development.

This tutorial will give you an appreciation for how you can use CSS in combination with XHTML files to create web pages and websites. We will also go through the development of a simple website using CSS and XHTML written in Windows in a simple text editor, Notepad. This tutorial will give you the background behind CSS and show you how to use some of the basic CSS tags.

Reading the tutorial may help you decide that creating a website using basic tools is not something you want to take on. But going through the exercises will give you an idea of where you would like to have a software tool take over, and how much design control you want to give to the software tool.

Click the links on the left to go through the tutorial.