HTML & CSS – The VERY Basics

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I have been wanting to learn a few things about CSS for a long time. HTML is something i can handle but what the *** is CSS? So i was very pleasantly surprised when i came across this simple video explaining it to me. Most video tutorials for CSS go beyond my scope of understanding, but this one was my cup of tea ( Frankly, only half my cup, but hey, IT HELPED!!)

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This video is the VERY basics of what HTML and CSS is, for the absolute beginner. HTML and CSS files are, quite literally, just text files. You don’t need any special software to create them, although a nice code editor is helpful. You can create these files on any computer and use your web browser to preview them during development. You can think of HTML as the content of your website: a bunch of text and references to images wrapped in tags. CSS is the design of your website. It targets the tags you wrote in your HTML and applies the style. Keeping these two things separate is key to quality web design.

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