Learn CSS, here’s why.
The irony may be lost with some of you...
If you want to be a web designer of any sort you really need to learn HTML & CSS and don’t worry it really is easy once you learn the basics.
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and at first was just used for colouring text and maybe even adding images if you really felt daring that afternoon.
Now it’s a must for arranging and structuring pages (as well as still adding pretty colours) and just has to be learnt if you want to design websites to any sort of decent standard. Using CSS is first of all a must because it saves time, and a lot of it depending on the size of your website. Let’s say for example that you have 100 pages on your website and you decide you want the headers all to be smaller on every page. If you have been using CSS you simply need to edit the code and it will change everywhere on the site…marvelous!
With CSS you just decide how you want something to look once, then it will be the same throughout your website…here is a quick example:
If this is your HTML: <p>Welcome to Vista Web Design’s Blog</p>.
And here is your CSS: p { color: fff; }
The P tag here is short for Paragraph, the above CSS will set the paragraph as fff (white).
If on this particular website the background is changed to white and you can no longer see the text it’s a simple change in the CSS rather than going through each individual instance of <p>.
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