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These tutorials will take you beyond HTML by teaching you how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS can help you enhance your website with more sophisticated layouts and more elegant text formatting. In addition, CCS gives you the ability to make changes to all the pages on your site quickly and easily.

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• 5 cheap CSS tricks

  http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/css.shtml
  Fun tutorial on how to implement 5 popular CSS effects to your site, such as rollover text link, non underlining link, and bordered paragraphs.

• A List Apart: CSS: Making Alternate Style Sheets Work

  http://alistapart.com/article/alternate
  Describes a cross-browser way for site authors to dynamically switch between multiple style sheets.

• Adding a Touch of Style

  http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style
  Guidance on the basics of adding simple CSS to a site. Also includes a HEX/RBG color converter and color chart.

• Adding drop caps effects to your paragraphs using CSS

  http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/pseudoletter.shtml
  Learn to deploy the age-old drop caps effect of traditional print to your paragraphs, using CSS2.

• Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial

  http://css-tutorial.8m.com/
  Describes, how to enhance web pages and shows several different methods of implementing CSS, and the pitfalls to avoid.

• Cascading Style Sheets Tutorials

  http://www.pageresource.com/dhtml/indexcss.htm
  Learn how to use Cascading Style Sheets for web page layout. The tutorials focus on all areas of CSS.

• Comprehensive CSS Guide

  http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/css1.shtml
  Guide showing how to code Cascading Style Sheets. Visitors learn a little of everything--from the various ways of defining style, and how to use styles to manipulate font, background, and margins.

• Cool Text Rollover Effects Using CSS

  http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/css_styles.asp
  Try out these cool text rollover effects using CSS style sheets. You can cut and paste the code provided and try it out on your web site.

• CSS School

  http://www.w3schools.com/css/
  CSS tutorial with examples, quizzes, references, and an editor.

• CSS Styles Tutorial

  http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/css_styles_tutorial.asp
  Learn how to use CSS Styles to format text. Tips included like text rollovers, and customizing form objects.

• CSS Testing Grounds

  http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/
  An index of various bug tests, technology support level tests, neat tricks, and other demonstrations of cutting edge CSS techniques and experiments.

• CSS Tutorial by EchoEcho.Com

  http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm
  A Cascading Style Sheets tutorial with introductions, code examples, online tools, cross-browser references, and official documentation, as well as a live CSS forum for visitors' follow-up questions and answers.

• CSS Tutorials

  http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/
  Free Cascading Style Sheet tutorials from industry experts that feature information on CSS basics, tags, programming, and scripts.

• Experimental Css Design

  http://www.dzinelabs.com/
  Bleeding edge tutorials and demonstrations.

• Fancy Paragraphs with CSS

  http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/fancy-paragraphs.html
  Article shows how to spice up paragraphs using simple CSS techniques.

• HIOX CSS Tutorial

  http://www.hscripts.com/tutorials/css/
  Covers text properties, font, background properties, border, margins, padding properties, link styles, and mouseover effects.

• HTML with Style

  http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorials/
  A series of tutorials on Web page design with HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, focusing on standards compliance and backward compatibility.

• HTML.net: CSS Tutorial

  http://html.net/tutorials/css/
  Easy to understand tutorial from the basics to the sophisticated techniques.

• HTMLSource Stylesheet Tutorials

  http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/
  A collection of lessons on CSS, from an introduction to style sheet code to text formatting, backgrounds, layout and positioning.

• Learning CSS

  http://www.utexas.edu/learn/css/
  Reference and tutorial covering beginner level stylesheet design.

• Making Headlines With Cascading Style Sheets

  http://www.webreference.com/authoring/style/sheets/headlines/
  Specific examples for dressing up your page and section headers with CSS.

• Position Is Everything

  http://www.positioniseverything.net/
  Explains CSS bugs in modern browsers, provides demo examples of CSS behaviors, and shows how to 'make it work' without using tables for layout purposes.

• RichInStyle.com Master Class

  http://www.richinstyle.com/masterclass/
  Tutorials on making perfect style sheets, lengths, fonts, margins, colors, links, as well as information on browser compatibility.

• Simple Styling with CSS

  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_simple_styling.html
  From the Macromedia developer center. Simple yet creative styling with CSS.

• Tizag - CSS Tutorials

  http://www.tizag.com/cssT/
  Easy to follow tutorials that teach novices the basics.

• Uberlink CSS List Menus

  http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css_menus/list_01/
  A tutorial on how to turn a simple unordered list into a graphical menu using CSS rollover effects. Covers both horizontal and vertical menus.

• Website Publisher - Faking a Graphical Link

  http://www.websitepublisher.net/article/faking_graphical_link/
  Describes how to use CSS to make your text links appear like graphical buttons.

• WestCiv: The Complete CSS Guide

  http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/
  Five-part tutorial for understanding and using Cascading Style Sheets. Covers introductory material, the features and properties of CSS, and real-world issues, such as building for compatibility and accessibility.

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