This is a short overview of CSS: what it is, what it's for, how it works, and how it fails.

  1. HTML Alone: the bad old days
  2. HTML and CSS Together: the brave new world
  3. CSS In Practice: how to style a page
  4. CSS Syntax: what CSS does, and how it does it
  5. Cross-Browser Issues: standards and how to flout them
  6. Useful Links: where to from here

For the purposes of the tutorial, we're producing a website for the famous international travel agency, Peter Penguin Travel. Here's the mockup as produced by Peter Penguin's crack team of PhotoShop experts. This is the goal.

We start with a look at the traditional way to achieve this.