CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a markup language used to design the appearance of web pages. It covers the layout, font styles and sizes, formatting, tables, and link properties, among others, of a page. CSS can dictate the overall appearance of a website using only a single document, which we refer to as the style sheet. In case you have not encountered CSS, this is your lucky day for CSS will prove to be a beneficial tool in designing your web pages.
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In HTML, one of the most basic principles of design is the distinction between content and presentation. This is important because using HTML gives you the chance to feed the same text to a different set of clients, who will then format the text according to their preferences. Take for example a cellular phone’s browser. It does not have the same capability as a desktop browser as Mozilla Firefox. As a case in point, a browser may not make a full visual display as it reads the user a document.
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External CSS is CSS in its fullest form. The method requires creating a separate CSS file to put all your style declarations for your site. Even if your site has say, a hundred pages, all you need is a single file to apply revisions. The external CSS file is dictated by only one line of HTML code.
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The most beautiful thing about CSS is that it allows us to transfer the markup away from a page and into a separate style sheet. The very foundation of our web page becomes simple and easily understandable by even the most outdated browsers. With CSS, there are no restrictions when it comes to design and effects without sacrificing functionality and user-friendliness.
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This tutorial illustrates how to design a nice CSS menu with a list of feed reader icons.

The class selector enables web authors to apply different styles on a single (X)HTML element. This is almost the same as my introduction about inline styles but class selectors can overwrite styles by editing style sheets. They could also be applied within an (X)HTML file.
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CSS enables you to style links using different methods:
a:link {color: #009900;}
a:visited {color: #999999;}
a:hover {color: #333333;}
a:focus {color: #333333;}
a:active {color: #009900;}
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HTML tags serve to define a document’s content as if to say “This is a header” or “This is a paragraph” or “This is a table” using tags such as <h1>, <p>, <table>, etc. The browser is expected to configure an HTML document’s layout without the use of formatting tags.
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