Welcome to creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), lesson 2 of 4. In this lesson, I intend to provide information to the learner on how to create a well uniformed and easily maintained web site using CSS. This "hands on" lesson will help you develop a complete style sheet for a simple web page and show how the style sheet effect elements on the page.

When you complete this lesson, you will be able to:

1. Create, save and view an CSS file using a plain text editor
2. Understand the syntax and foundation of the language
3. Know the difference between internal and external CSS
4. Understand when and where to use CSS
5. Use the building blocks of any style sheet: rules, selectors, properties and values