Before beginning our journey to learn HTML and CSS it is important to understand the differences between the two languages, their syntax, and some common terminology. As an overview, HTML is a hyper text markup language created to give content structure and meaning. CSS, also known as cascading style sheets, is a presentation language created to give content

There are a lot of different elements, attributes, properties, values, and so forth to learn in order to write HTML and CSS. Every lesson up until this point has had the primary objective of communicating these different parts of HTML and CSS, in hopes of helping teach the core fundamentals. This lesson takes a step

display is CSS’s most important property for controlling layout. Every element has a default display value depending on what type of element it is. The default for most elements is usually block or inline. A block element is often called a block-level element. An inline element is always just called an inline element. block <div>

Having no layout whatsover is almost ok if all you want is one big column of content. However, if a user makes the browser window really wide, it gets kind of annoying to read: after each line your eyes have a long distance to travel right-to-left to the next line. Try resizing your browser to

Having the ability to write HTML and CSS with a solid understanding is a great expertise to have. As a website’s code base and traffic grows, a new skill set comes into play, one that is extremely important to both development time and user experience. Knowing the fundamentals of website performance and organization can go a long way. The