Page Layout with CSS - Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML - page 269

and list any special configurations needed for these areas. These will be configured
as classes in your CSS. Create an external style sheet, called project.css, which
contains these configurations.
4. Using your design documents as a guide, code a representative page for your site.
Use CSS to format text, color, and layout. Be sure to apply classes and ids where
appropriate. Associate the Web page to the external style sheet.
Save and test the page. Modify both the Web page and the project.css file as
needed. Test and modify until you have achieved the look you want.
5. Using the completed page as a template wherever possible, code the rest of the
pages on your site. Test and modify them as needed.
6. Experiment with modifying the project.css file. Change the page background
color, the font family, and so on. Test your pages in a browser. Notice how a
change in a single file can affect multiple files when external style sheets are used.