Web Design How-To: Giggle Your Way to Code Mastery

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CSS dominates the best-designed Web sites for several reasons: It gives you great control, it’s easier to update than old-fashioned HTML, and it’s compliant with Web standards.
While modern Web-design applications generate CSS, you’ll be better equipped to tweak their results if you understand the underlying code. That’s where this excerpt comes in. Its plain-English explanations, real-world analogies, and games (crossword puzzle, anyone?) make it — gasp! — fun to learn what can be a dull subject.

 
This excerpt assumes you have a grounding in XHTML. If you want the XHTML basics, see “What You Need to Succeed.”
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