Chapter 9
Laying It All Out
Now that we’ve got a good base of CSS knowledge, it’s time to learn how to put everything together into a real website. This chapter and the next is where we really kick things into high gear, with material you’re unlikely to see in any other CSS tutorial. To get started, our first step will be to transform our previous work into a more manageable set of templates and page layouts that can be easily reused and updated (in accordance with the DRY principle (Box 5.2)).
Along the way, we’ll add more styling as a way to learn more complex aspects of CSS, while refining our design to be more suitable for use as a personal or business website. Combined with Chapter 10, the result will be a professional-grade example that ...
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