Style Sheets? What are they?

Style Sheets or Cascading Style Sheets are the next step in enhancing the look of your webpage. But, you must keep in mind that Style Sheets only work when the webpage is viewed in either Netscape 4.0+ or Internet Explorer 3.0+. Anything previous version of the above mentioned browsers and the Style Sheet will be ignored.

Style Sheets can be defined as "a method used to enhance the property of an HTML tag". And this is correct. What Style Sheets do is take an HTML tag, like <B> (the BOLD tag), and place additional style properties on it. These could include font color, font size, text indentation, text border, padding, word or letter spacing, the list goes on and on.

What does one look like?

Style Sheets go between the tags of an HTML page.

This is an example of one:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
CENTER
          font-family: Courier;
          font-size: 14pt;
          font-weight: bold;
          color: #0000A0;
-->
</style>

Now, every time you use the <CENTER> tag, not only will the text be centered, but it will also be in Courier font, in size 14, bold, and colored dark blue.

How can I make one?

Glad you asked. You can download a shareware version of The CoffeeCup StyleSheet Maker at our web site:

http://www.coffeecup.com/software/

The program will have everything you need to get you started in making your very own Cascading Style Sheets.