CSS Stylesheets

CSS Stylesheets are extremely helpful when you change your website layouts, especially if you have a lot of pages to deal with. They cover every page that links to the stylesheet in its code, and will save you a ton of time. Having a CSS stylesheet is completely optional, but it is recommended.

First you must create a page, preferably named style.css, and save it in the main folder of your site directory. If your site host does not allow you to create a page ending with .css, then create a CSS stylesheet on Microsoft Frontpage or even Notepad, as long as you save it as '.css'.

The ending of .css allows you to put in any CSS code in that page without having to use the

<style type="text/css"> and </style> tags. Below is a starter code to help you begin your CSS stylesheet. You can add to it to make it more interesting, or you can take out some things, though it is not advised.

Fill in the 'OPTIONS' with your desired choices that follow, please remove all 'OPTIONS', commas and other options after you've chosen. You can only choose one, otherwise the code will not work. If you repeat something, the latter code will be the active one. For fonts, please choose a suitable common font as not all people have fancy fonts on their computers and the code will not work for them.

Clarifications:

After you have successfully saved your CSS stylesheet, you need to link to it on every page that you want your CSS codes to work on by using the following tags:

You need to put this code between your

<head> and </head> tags, put it anywhere else and it will not work.

Now you'll have an easier time when you change your layouts because you can simply modify most of the colors on your CSS stylesheet and have the results on every page.