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Styles


There are many ways to develop web sites, one of the most commons is CCS ( Cascading Styels Sheets ) CSS is a way of formatting Web pages according to a series of rules on the the same documents or using a external one.

Inline Styles

Inline style is refer as the code inside of the body of the html file. This take preference over internal, and/or external styles

Internal Styles

The code inside the head seccion that format the body text is called internal styles. This only overwrites the external style code

External (linked) Style Sheets

A external file use as formating styles for a web site is called external Styles. This file is has a extension of ccs ( cascade styles sheets) This is usually use when a werb site has indentical formating. Also, in order to use the external links, it must be link it from the web pages using this style.

Class Rules

CSS rule are made up of a selector and declaration that together describe the characteristics of XHTML

Here are some links to CCS tutorial web sites:

http://www.csstutorial.net

http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm

http://xhtml.com/en/css/reference

Semantic Markup

In the semantic web, information published on the web is accompanied with metadata describing the published information, thus providing a semantic context. As the semantic web is further developed and adopted, adding semantic markup to published data will become an important part of web publishing.

Screen Readers

Attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen (or, more accurately, sent to standard output, whether a video monitor is present or not). This interpretation is then re-presented to the user with text-to-speech, sound icons, or a Braille output device. Screen readers are a form of assistive technology (AT) potentially useful to people who are blind, visually impaired, illiterate or learning disabled, often in combination with other AT, such as screen magnifiers.

Browser Defaults

When Web browser uses its own built in styles to decide how to display HTML text.

CSS Font Measurement Units

There are many font size measures unit for a web site. The most used is the pixel and/or by percewnt.

"Cascade" in Cascading Style Sheets

In order to avoit problems CSS uses a cascade style refer to the order in which styles take preference. Inline styles, which is located in the body seccion, overwrites any other style. Then, internal style, which is located in the head section, overwrites the external style, which is located in a external file with .CCS extension.

Using Multiple Style Sheets

It can be implement multiple styles sheets in a single website whitout limitations. This is used to improbe or to manage different designs in a website.

Automatically Generated Styles

In Expression Web there is a funcion that generates automatically a style rule, which can be later alter or modify, according to the styles propeties chose


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Page Modified by: Christian Lopez, November 2, 2009