Easy, Hands-On Tutorials for CSS

The w3schools website is where I learned a lot of the beginner Cascading Style Sheet writing.  The Cascading Style Sheets or CSS, is the set of instructions that formats your blog.  All the elements are put on the page with html, and we make them look pretty with CSS. If you head to your admin panels and look in Appearance>> Editor, and click on the Stylesheet towards the bottom of the list on the right hand side, you will see a page of CSS code.  This code really is not hard to write.  Here's an example: Lets say we want to put a border around a post. We go to our admin panels, … [Read more...]

W3Schools Website

This is where I learned most of my css & html coding skills.  It isn't a lot of fluff, very little explanation of the code, but a whole lot of charts and examples - which is how I learn best.  Visit w3schools here. Here is the list of their references: HTML & CSS REFERENCES HTML Tag Reference HTML Event Reference HTML Color Reference XHTML Tag Reference CSS Reference XML Languages REFERENCES XML DOM Reference XSL Reference XSLT Reference XSL-FO Reference XPath Reference XQuery Reference XLink Reference Schema Reference XForms Reference RDF Reference RSS Reference WAP … [Read more...]

Your Questions Answered: Changing the Font Size

A few days ago I posed the question on Twitter, "What do you want to know about Wordpress?" And surprisingly, people read my tweets because I got four good questions. So I'll start with the first. The Bloggess wants to know how she can change her font size on her blog. It's a good question.  The themes we get come with certain font sizes and they may be too small for us to read, so we fear that our readers won't be able to. It might also be that we can't stand Times New Roman 12, so we want to change it to Century Gothic 14. What ever it is that you want to do, regarding your font size, … [Read more...]