A Brief Look Into Web Design

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A Look into Web Design

              Have you ever wondered what it is that makes some websites look so visually appealing and how different websites have such different design patterns? This is primarily due to the CSS that is written to style these websites. What is CSS, you ask? CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is a stylesheet language that is used to describe how a web document (i.e., HTML) is supposed be rendered. Put simply, it is the primary coding language that is used to visually design web pages.

              You can use CSS for a countless number of visual features, all the way from text fonts to graphical animations. Just like most coding languages, the limit of what is possible is dependent on your creativity. CSS can be used in junction with other mark-up languages other than HTML such as XML, however HTML really is the dominant mark-up language and is what 99.9% (not really) of web pages use. If you would like more information about how HTML and CSS are used together, I refer you to my previous article “How Websites are Put Together”. Now, just to motivate the idea, here are some examples of great unique websites that were made using only HTML and CSS. I recommend you checking them out for yourself to get the full experience, but here are some snippets




The websites that I have listed obviously use very advanced techniques and are works of art in their regard. in any case, the gist of how basic CSS works is that it allows you to reference HTML tags and apply styles to them. When making layouts with CSS, you can think of everything in terms of blocks that you can layer on top of each other position them in any way you want. Another very important thing to keep in mind when designing websites is responsive design, which allow the content to resize and adapt to different sized screen. So, if you are just beginning your journey into web design or web development, then hopefully this article has given you inspiration as to what is possible with just CSS.

As always, thanks for reading.

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