- COLOR with CSS coding is one of the important transformers of regular HTML. You will have many options with color. Some of these include: making your letters in color, providing a background to your paragraph or sentences, transforming text opacity. To work with color is important to know that you will need special codes for your colors to be inserted and recognized into the CSS. See the Resources section to find color codes.
- TEXT may be also manipulated with CSS. You may start with font faces and selecting the kid of text you would like to use in your project:serif or sans-serif.You may select font size, weight, style, letter spacing or line height. You may also choose to align text or give it special effects such as a background picture or shadow.
- Another way to separate your groups of text on page is to use BOXES with CSS: you may determine the size, the spacing, the border type or border color. You may also choose margin size or padding size.
- The page LAYOUT is also easy to determine with CSS: the program will determine where the elements of text or box will be on your page. Some elements will be fixed, others will float. Also, the web page design should take into account the 960.GS GRID.
- IMAGES inserted with CSS add a nice touch and enhance the text. CSS will help you control the size of the image,the alignment, adding images to the background of text.