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We’ve already discussed the basics of Cascading Stylesheets. Let’s look at more. As mentioned in the first article on CSS, there is a concept of cascading preference, or priority. It works this way: A style embedded inside an html tag, an inline style has the highest priority. Next is a style defined in the head of an html page, an internal stylesheet. Last in priority is an external stylesheet, or .css file.

Let’s look at this idea: We’ve got a file, called page.html. It has a link to the stylesheet styles.css. In styles.css we have this style setup for the bold tag, <b>:

Every instance of <b> will now have this style. What if we have a section in our html file where we’re using a serif font? Times New Roman, perhaps? It would look a bit strange to have the font-face change that drastically. Well, we could define styles in the head of the document. The internal stylesheet would override the complimentary styles defined in the styles.css file.

Say we then have a portion of our document where we have a heading that has a bold section. We’ve defined the heading-one (<h1>) font-size as 18 point, but here we want the font-size to be 22 point. To do this in this situation, we add an inline style in the heading tag. This style would be valid for this single instance and would take precedence over the other two types of styles.

Example:

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We’ve already discussed the basics of Cascading Stylesheets. Let’s look at more. As mentioned in the first article on CSS, there is a concept of cascading preference, or priority. It works this way: A style embedded inside an html tag, an inline style has the highest priority. Next is a style defined in the head of an html page, an internal stylesheet. Last in priority is an external stylesheet, or .css file.

Let’s look at this idea: We’ve got a file, called page.html. It has a link to the stylesheet styles.css. In styles.css we have this style setup for the bold tag, <b>:

Every instance of <b> will now have this style. What if we have a section in our html file where we’re using a serif font? Times New Roman, perhaps? It would look a bit strange to have the font-face change that drastically. Well, we could define styles in the head of the document. The internal stylesheet would override the complimentary styles defined in the styles.css file.

Say we then have a portion of our document where we have a heading that has a bold section. We’ve defined the heading-one (<h1>) font-size as 18 point, but here we want the font-size to be 22 point. To do this in this situation, we add an inline style in the heading tag. This style would be valid for this single instance and would take precedence over the other two types of styles.

Example:

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There are two basic parts to the structure of a web page. The head and the body. There is a third piece, the DOCTYPE, or html version, information, but that usually gets discussed with the head.

The head of an html, or web, page contains the hidden information that interacts between your web browser (Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.) and the web server. The body contains the information that you see in your web browser.

Let’s start with the head. Here’s an excerpt from a html file’s head:

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There are two basic parts to the structure of a web page. The head and the body. There is a third piece, the DOCTYPE, or html version, information, but that usually gets discussed with the head.

The head of an html, or web, page contains the hidden information that interacts between your web browser (Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.) and the web server. The body contains the information that you see in your web browser.

Let’s start with the head. Here’s an excerpt from a html file’s head:

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The use of Cascading Stylesheets, or CSS, is growing as people who create and maintain web pages and sites learn more about the separation of content from design, or style. CSS is a tool for doing just that. Why is it important to separate content from design? For starters, it makes your html files smaller. You can have one or two files that contain all the styles for your site instead of having styles spread throughout all your documents. Smaller html files means pages load faster for people viewing your site. This is a very good thing.

Secondly, by having your site’s design separated from the content, you make it easier for those who have to maintain the site to focus on good content. A web site lives and dies by the content. Better content, better site. If it’s easier for people to create good content for your site, then you stand to have a better site.

Thirdly, the use of CSS enables you to make your content available to the widest possible audience. You can create a design that is optimized for various viewers and devices. One design, or set of styles, optimizes your content for a computer display, another for a PDA (Palm device), another for a printer, and so on. Proper use of CSS can even make your content readable by older browsers such as Netscape 4.
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The use of Cascading Stylesheets, or CSS, is growing as people who create and maintain web pages and sites learn more about the separation of content from design, or style. CSS is a tool for doing just that. Why is it important to separate content from design? For starters, it makes your html files smaller. You can have one or two files that contain all the styles for your site instead of having styles spread throughout all your documents. Smaller html files means pages load faster for people viewing your site. This is a very good thing.

Secondly, by having your site’s design separated from the content, you make it easier for those who have to maintain the site to focus on good content. A web site lives and dies by the content. Better content, better site. If it’s easier for people to create good content for your site, then you stand to have a better site.

Thirdly, the use of CSS enables you to make your content available to the widest possible audience. You can create a design that is optimized for various viewers and devices. One design, or set of styles, optimizes your content for a computer display, another for a PDA (Palm device), another for a printer, and so on. Proper use of CSS can even make your content readable by older browsers such as Netscape 4.
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Since October 2003, Microsoft started releasing patches on a monthly basis. This critical update is from the November 2003 update where only one patch was released for XP under the new system. The patch fixes a ’security vulnerability that exists in the Workstation service of XP that could allow remote code execution on an affected system. This vulnerability results because of an unchecked buffer in the Workstation service’.

Windows XP Professional & Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Patch KB810217 Save to your desktop and double click to install.

Please download this patch and run it if you do not have autoupdate turned on Windows XP, see Knowledge base article “Windows XP Autoupdate Settings” to set up your computer with autoupdate.
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Since October 2003, Microsoft started releasing patches on a monthly basis. This critical update is from the November 2003 update where only one patch was released for XP under the new system. The patch fixes a ’security vulnerability that exists in the Workstation service of XP that could allow remote code execution on an affected system. This vulnerability results because of an unchecked buffer in the Workstation service’.

Windows XP Professional & Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Patch KB810217 Save to your desktop and double click to install.

Please download this patch and run it if you do not have autoupdate turned on Windows XP, see Knowledge base article “Windows XP Autoupdate Settings” to set up your computer with autoupdate.
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Since October 2003, Microsoft started releasing patches on a monthly basis. This critical update is from the November 2003 update where only one patch was released for XP under the new system. The patch fixes a ’security vulnerability that exists in the Workstation service of XP that could allow remote code execution on an affected system. This vulnerability results because of an unchecked buffer in the Workstation service’.

Windows XP Professional & Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Patch KB810217 Save to your desktop and double click to install.

Please download this patch and run it if you do not have autoupdate turned on Windows XP, see Knowledge base article “Windows XP Autoupdate Settings” to set up your computer with autoupdate.
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Since October 2003, Microsoft started releasing patches on a monthly basis. This critical update is from the November 2003 update where only one patch was released for XP under the new system. The patch fixes a ’security vulnerability that exists in the Workstation service of XP that could allow remote code execution on an affected system. This vulnerability results because of an unchecked buffer in the Workstation service’.

Windows XP Professional & Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Patch KB810217 Save to your desktop and double click to install.

Please download this patch and run it if you do not have autoupdate turned on Windows XP, see Knowledge base article “Windows XP Autoupdate Settings” to set up your computer with autoupdate.
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