Style Me

A CSS exploration

You Are Invited

An invitation from the author of Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS to practice your CSS skills. Create a stylesheet (or two) for this page.

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• My Styles
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The Rules of the Game

Here is how you participate in this CSS styling exercise. You'll style this document. It contains a link to a stylesheet called mystyles.css. Create a stylesheet by that name for your style rules. You can make two stylesheets, as there is a link to an alternate stylesheet as well. The second stylesheet must be named morestyles.css. There are a few other requirements. The requirements are quite simple:

Ready to go to work? Download this zip file. It contains the XHTML file and the JavaScript file. It also contains a README file explaining how to send me the completed entry.

Why Should You Do This?

You will get a lot of great practice using your skills as a CSS designer.

And a bonus: you get to try your skills with an XHTML element that even CSS Zen Garden does not have: a table.

The main reason to style this page is for the fun and challenge of using your CSS skills to make the page look beautiful. There is no correct style or right way to style the page, so feel free to try out all sorts of layouts, color schemes, and techniques. The XHTML is marked up with plenty of IDs and classes to give you ample "hooks" you can target with CSS rules.

Are You Going to Get Anything Out of Doing This?

Two to six of the page designs created from this page will be featured in the color insert section of the upcoming book, Mastering Integrated HTML & CSS, with full credit given to the designer. If your design is selected, it will give your design skills free public exposure. You will be given a free copy of the book in which your design appears.

Do an impressive job and you might see your design published in glorious full color in the pages of my next book. Good luck with your great design!

Helpful links

Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS by Virginia DeBolt is due from Wiley Publishing in Spring, 2007.