Web Style Sheets
Web Style Sheets
Last months Ycademy monthly seminar focused on building a customised authors blog with a professional look and feel. Customising a blog now longer becomes such a daunting affair. The follow-up Ycademy trainings over the past few weeks have gone further to increase the knowledge in working with web style sheets and creating a very personalised looking blog.
SmallBusinessIdeas blog. From this:
To this:
CSS Tutorials
Working with the Semiomantics XO script the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Tutorials have helped turn a basic script into a personalised website. Just by making a few simple changes of colours ,fonts and background you can completely change the feel of any site. The live tutorials provide not only know-how but also a hands on workshop.
CSS Code
By modifying a few elements in the CSS code from the default settings to your own preferences creates a new look as can be seen in the example below, the Disney look, created during a CSS training session.
The Disney look:
The addition of graphics to the background and changing the font style creates a fun look to the whole site, which normally is quite sober.
Once you begin to understand the basics of CSS then the rest is fairly easy to follow.
“The CSS syntax is made up of three parts: a selector, a property and a value: selector {property:value} Source: W3Schools
The selector is normally the HTML element/tag you wish to define, the property is the attribute you wish to change, and each property can take a value. The property and value are separated by a colon, and surrounded by curly braces:…”
Practice as always is needed to become totally familiar with a style.css file.
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Author:
Zo Nicholas, Media, Marketing, Publishing.
Co-Founder of YORGOO, Ycademy,YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.
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