CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are that great mysteriously wonderfully simply hard bit of confusingly simplistic greatness that makes our web sites and blogs sing. In today’s web, most ‘properly’ designed sites follow the design and code logic that says that content needs to be kept separate from layout or style.  Years ago, when I started building sites, I had to format every element of every page in it’s own rite.  That tedious task was soon replaced by Dreamweaver’s great template architecture which allowed me to design a layout, then apply it to my content.  That removed some of the tedium but introduced other problems.

Then CSS hit and hit with a bang.  Now designers can use a separate document to list out all the different design elements and how they should be displayed.  If you’re a WordPress, Live Journal, Drupal or any other CMS / blogging platform user, you’re using CSS and maybe not even know it.  I live in WordPress so I’m getting very familiar the CSS properties and how to make use of them (mainly how to adjust them).

Designer / Author Nick La over at WebDesignerWall has come up with a short and very useful list of 5 Simple, But Useful CSS Properties.  I’ve seen these in use and never really realized it.    Read the full article…