When creating a clean and attractive website, you don’t ever want to ruin it with error pages. Although they are not always unavoidable, many scripts can easily return a clean error message. Using a simple bit of CSS makes your errors display in an smooth, non-aggressive way. This method is also very effective in returning little messages to your user such as “you are now logged in” or “you received a message”. (…)

After reading some of the css techniques mentioned at SmashingMagizine, I discovered that they had removed a dead link about a css powered percentage bar. I quickly decided to attempt a recreation of such a useful feature. Anyways, here is the easy code for creating a percentage bar. (…)

Although simple, this is a question I’ve been asked numerous times by learner developers. This “tutorial” assumes you have also never created a html and css webpage before because the two facets are so closely linked.

About

Firstly, you need to understand what CSS is. CSS stands for Cascading StyleSheet and it is the key element of web development. CSS is used to tell a webpage how you want it to look. It can be used to define id’s, classes, and other html elements.

You can load a stylesheet in html using this code:

<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”yourstyle.css”/>

Example

Now, an example. Create a new file in notepad or a similar text editor and save it as style.css to a folder on your computer. Repeat this and create another file called index.html and save it to the same folder as your style.css file. (…)