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CSS for design

CSS for design

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CSS for design

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- Design plays an important part and is a key component of every successful website. Here you'll notice a specialization within the different types of developers. There are folks who are more interested in the look and feel of a site and enjoy working on the user experience or UX, and there are those who prefer to work on the functionality of a site. That's called user interface or UI. Design for a website will require learning how to work with the layout language of the web, which is called CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Like HTML, it's made up of two parts. First, CSS is about designing a set of rules or style sheets for how the DOM is translated into visual form. The second part is the cascading style rules. Those are a set of rules that describe the priority of how the styles are rendered on a page. CSS defines a set of rules that identify the part of the page that you want to modify, and then…

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