The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

Chapter 5. ADDING A TOUCH OF STYLE

Judging by the runaway success of books such as CSS Mastery by Andy Budd with Simon Collison, and Cameron Moll (friends of ED, ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-614-2), web designers have finally got the message that Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the way to design a website. Getting the message is the easy part, but many designers rapidly find their initial enthusiasm takes a severe dent when they run into the reality of creating a CSS-driven site. Creating a style rule is simple enough, and most CSS properties have intuitive names. The difficulty lies in the infinite number of ways in which style rules can be combined. And that's what makes it so powerful and worthwhile. You need only visit the CSS Zen Garden at www.csszengarden.com ...