In the center of the page you’ll typically find one or more columns that contain content. Generally there is a larger column, and one or two smaller columns – often called a sidebar. The sidebar generally contains information about upcoming events, recent updates to the website, or various other pieces of information which is related…
At the bottom of the page, you can find the footer. This is where you traditionally found the copyright information, such as the year. Nowadays, with some modern legislation based in different countries’ laws, you can often find links to web privacy standards, terms or use (or usage), and the cookie usage policy to remain…
A declaration block is where we define the styles that will be applied. The block is contained within braces ({ and }). You must use the braces to surround your rules. Rules Rules in CSS are made up of two parts. The property, which is the attribute which will be changed, and its value. Depending…
When you define a style, it is made up of a couple of pieces of information; specifically the selector, the declaration block, and rules, which are a combination of a property and a value. The selector allows us to define which tag, or tags, will be affected by our style definition. There is a whole…
At the top of the web page you will often find information about the website such as the name, logo, and possibly the main navigation, date, and/or a site wide search function. Depending upon styling in coordination with the tags, there are different ways to build the site. However, you might expect to see something…
Heading Tags Heading tags start with an h, and have a number immediately following from 1 to 6. Typically, headers are used to show an importance with a lower number showing more importance, and defining what a large section of a page is about. Our heading tags start with an h and a number between…
After the head tag set, you’ll normally find the body tag set. In the body tag set, is all of the tags and information that is displayed to the website visitor. The body tag will be using the rest of the HTML tags that are available to us. So we won’t actually see the body…
The first section we have is the head. Now this isn’t the header that we see on a web page. Rather, this is like an old style head of a file, which contains metadata about our web page. Metadata is data about our data, or in this case, our website. There are tags which should…
