The Crimson Blog

Years ago HTML stood alone. Then along came CSS.

In this beginner CSS tutorial, we’ll start slow with simple explanations of HTML and CSS, then we’ll push forward into CSS3, the latest version of CSS, and explain a few things about HTML5’s wonderful sidekick.

This is a Companion Tutorial to “Smooth Strides from HTML to HTML5” where we explored the basic structure of HTML and its newest version: HTML5. We used Speed Skating as a web page example in our first tutorial. Here we’ll switch to Figure Skating in our discussion, just for fun.

What’s the difference between HTML and CSS?

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I love Pinterest. It is a great social media platform for creative, visually-oriented people. It’s also different from most other popular social media websites. So if you’re struggling with your efforts on Facebook or Twitter, don’t despair. Pinterest may be right for you.

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is an exciting topic for website owners. Image optimization, on the other hand, is often overlooked and misunderstood. But they actually have a very close relationship. In fact, they could be considered a pixel perfect match.

What is a pixel? Computer monitors display images by dividing the screen into tiny pixels. Each pixel is one color. However, since they are so small, they can blend together to form shades of color. Web browsers sometimes struggle, though, to display complex images with millions of tiny pixels.

Fortunately, images can be optimized to help the browsers out. Images on the Web can still be spectacular, yet cleaned up a bit and presented online in such a way that search engines, such as Google and Bing, will be impressed.

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