Cascading Style Sheets is something every webmaster should learn to use, but may be complicated to code by hand. Fortunately, the built in Dreamweaver CSS tools make it easy as pie, as we see in this introductory lesson.

Whether you are a total newbie when it comes to CSS or you are an expert, the built in Dreamweaver CSS tools can help you out a lot.

This tutorial is designed for the person who owns Dreamweaver, is curious about CSS and wants to learn how to put it to use.

CSS is not hard to learn and with the Dreamweaver point and click tools, it is easier than ever.

3 Types Of CSS:

You can have an internal, external, or inline css style sheet.

In this tutorial, I will discuss the external style sheet, I think this is the most useful sites with more than one.

To create an external stylesheet with Dreamweaver, simple click ‘New’ and under ‘Basic Page’ choose ‘CSS’.

This will give you a blank style sheet.

The next thing you want to do is experiment and create 1 or 2 CSS definitions.

You might create a CSS definition called ‘background1′ and make the color green.

Then save the CSS style sheet as something like ‘sample1.css’.

Next you would open an html file in the same folder that has some text in it and ‘attach’ the external style sheet.

You attach the sheet by selecting the ‘Text’ dropdown menu and choosing ‘CSS Styles’ then ‘Attach Style Sheet’.

Once you connect an external style sheet web page, you can go to an external style sheet changes, changes in the contents of the page. This is especially important, if you have multiple web sites.

The concept is that you attach an external style sheet to all pages that are attached to it instantly by changing a single CSS style sheets, many Web pages can be updated.

In this way, 20000 colors and fonts new 15 page website with a large company in less than a second! Could be updated in … by just one external CSS style sheets to change.

So you see how useful CSS style sheets can be.

To begin, simply go into your HTML code after you have an external CSS sheet to your site have included in Dreamweaver. You can take each day as a day and start in a CSS class.

For example,. If you start adding a css class in any of these tags, Dreamweaver will start to auto-complete for you and you can select the category you want to add from the drop-down menu.

You can also use this to style page backgrounds, table backgrounds, fonts, and much more!

Only if, the next experiments in Dreamweaver, CSS and I need to learn the basics of, Dreamweaver using the CSS, you will be able to guarantee a few hours.

To learn more about Dreamweaver and Cascading Style Sheets, you can watch step by step videos at http://www.dreamweaverhowto.com