CSS - Cascading Style Sheets - it's what you use these days to 'style' your Web pages. CSS is used to change font colors, and backgrounds, borders, format lists, links, etc. It is also used to arrange elements on the page and form certain page layouts.

It use to be that Tables or Frames were used when making a layout for a Web page, but now CSS is the way to go. Tables really are no longer the accepted way to create web layouts. Every thing can be done with CSS and with cleaner and less code. Plus, CSS makes it very easy to format all the pages in your site. Actually, that's the main purpose of CSS.

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Another block-level element that is used often is the list. We will be going over three types of lists. Ordered Lists are used for items that you want to appear in sequential order - each item will have a number before it. Unordered Lists are used when the order of items isn't as important - each item will have a bullet in front of it. Finally, Definition Lists which are used when defining a term. Let's get started.

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So, we've learned how to setup the basic shell for an HTML document and add a little text. Now we can get into a little more of the formatting for our site's content. I briefly mentioned block-level elements in the previous basics post when we used the <p> tag. Specifically, a block-level element displays our content in a separate section within the page. So, basically it's just setting it off from other items or blocks. The elements we will be using today just happen to be block-level elements. You will see how they separate from other sections of content. Enough with the chit-chat let's get going.

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If you're looking to get started learning HTML the good old 'Hello World' is a fine place to start. I'll take you through the simple steps of setting up a very basic HTML web page. We will just display a simple line of text saying… Hello World!

So, let's get started. Here is what you need:

• Text Editor - I'll be using NotePad
• Internet Browser - Firefox for me, but Internet Explorer is fine

You don't need much - here we go…

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