A good way to learn more about CSS is to view different websites' CSS pages. Examine the source code, figure out where the CSS page resides on the server, and type the URL into your browser's address bar. A simpler way is to add a favelet (or "bookmarklet") to your browser. This is a little snippet of JavaScript that extracts data from the web page and creates an icon in your browser's toolbar. When you click that icon, the favelet generates the site's CSS page for you. For more information, check out http://tantek.com/favelets/ or http://www.bookmarklets.com/.

We've only skimmed the surface of the flexibility of CSS styling. Cascading Style Sheets can be used to style existing pages, calendars, forms, menus, and the beginnings of some very solid positioning methods. Standards are progressing and browser support improves with each release. We still have the hanging nemesis of Netscape 4 around to show us how poorly CSS can be treated; may it rest in peace—soon.

You've seen some of the advantages in decreased page size by removing images, creating styled text headers, and even adding decorative touches that appear to be images. CSS makes a document easier to maintain, create, and edit in a split second when the need arises. It also allows more customization of tags than HTML.

Now go forth and style!