Cascading Style Sheets—CSS for short—give you creative control over the layout
and design of your web pages. Using them, you can dress up your text with eye–
catching headings, drop caps, and borders, just like the ones you see in glossy mag-
azines. You can also arrange images with precision, create columns and banners,
and highlight your text links with dynamic rollover effects.
Anything that can do all that must be pretty complicated, right? Au contraire! The
purpose of CSS is to streamline the process of styling web pages. In the next few
pages, you’ll learn about the basics of CSS. In Chapter 1, you’ll get right to work
creating a CSS-powered web page.