CSS?

What is CSS and why or when is it a good thing?

Sorry for my ignorance!

Tobé

Tobé Saskor
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Pinehurst, NC 28374
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CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheet. It was invented to provide a way to give more control over visual editing of a site (i.e. type, color, size, borders, etc.) and to separate these functions from regular html which is mostly about placement and layout.

It’s really almost always “a good thing” to use CSS because of the control it gives you over type styles etc. In Freeway speak CSS has also come to mean layers because of something known as a DIV (division for short) which is basically a free floating html box in Freeway. When CSS divs are used in a “box model” for example your page can be grow and expand without destroying your layout if someone viewing your site should choose to enlarge the font.

CSS styling can seem like programing to the uniniated. Freeway does a lot of the work for you with regards to divisions when the big blue CSS button is active. The CSS Styles Editor is another matter, but is pretty straight forward for most styling needs.


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Tobé Saskor
Websites and Photography by Tobé
59 Deerwood Lane
Pinehurst, NC 28374
Tel: 910-215-8818
Email: email@hidden

Websites:
www.bytobe.com (photo)
www.WebsitesByTobe.com
www.WebsitesForHorses.com

On Jan 7, 2009, at 7:44 PM, chuckamuck wrote:

CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheet. It was invented to provide a way to give more control over visual editing of a site (i.e. type, color, size, borders, etc.) and to separate these functions from regular html which is mostly about placement and layout.

It’s really almost always “a good thing” to use CSS because of the control it gives you over type styles etc. In Freeway speak CSS has also come to mean layers because of something known as a DIV (division for short) which is basically a free floating html box in Freeway. When CSS divs are used in a “box model” for example your page can be grow and expand without destroying your layout if someone viewing your site should choose to enlarge the font.

CSS styling can seem like programing to the uniniated. Freeway does a lot of the work for you with regards to divisions when the big blue CSS button is active. The CSS Styles Editor is another matter, but is pretty straight forward for most styling needs.