Mar 17, 2008

CSS resources

CSS Tutorial for FP


Front Page Wizard Tips and Tricks (has a lot of tutorials about front page, including CSS:

Tons More Resources and Tips!

And, here is what I went over in class on Thursday:

3 kinds

  1. External style sheet—(same as linked)—link to it

Good if you want to apply all same styles consistently across your site

2. embedded—defines styles only for the current page—one page at a time—attributes at the top of the page

3. inline style sheets—applied to individual elements (paragraph, word, sentence)—it overrides anything else

Embedded

1.format-style

2. NEW button

3. type a period and then name without spaces for new style (.redtext)

4. format button—font—arial—12 point—red

5. supply new style

Pre-set external

1. file—new—pages and then the style sheets tab

  1. choose whichever one you want and save it as .css

From scratch

  1. format—style sheet
  2. highlight on element you want to modify
  3. modify—make selections
  4. click ok
  5. make as many styles as you want
  6. save in .css format

link to your style sheet

1. open page—format/ style sheet links

2. add—select .css file--ok

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