When the time comes to make full-scale changes to your Web site, you'll count your blessings that you learned how to use Cascading Styles Sheets (CSS) early. Style Sheets give you the flexibility and power to make fast changes with just a few mouse clicks and keystrokes. But the real benefit is in establishing style consistency across all pages of your Web site.

If you are already familiar with paragraph and character styles in page layout applications you'll understand the basics of CSS. But CSS goes beyond modifying fonts, sizes, and colors. CSS can be used to position elements, not merely text, on a page.

In this video clip (4 minutes 46 seconds as a 8.5 MB download), Steve Holmes shows you how to access the CSS Editor. From there you'll create a new Class Style Sheet; customize a font for the style sheet; and save the style sheet for future use.

In the full "Total Training presents: The Essentials of Adobe GoLive® CS" training series, you will learn web site creation, smart objects, layout tricks, FTP publishing, and more.

This video tutorial is a QuickTime movie. Click this link "GoLive CSS Introduction" to play the movie. Or you can download the file by option- or right clicking on the link and saving the ".mov" file to your hard disk.

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