• Your style sheet loads once and then only comes into place as needed or called upon by your pages
• You can change they look of an entire site from right here on your style sheet
• Create a style of presentation that is consistent across pages.
• Control your background here in your style sheet
• Do not use fixed sized for your fonts, use variable sizing like em - %- or
  [x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, etc]
• use more then one font family so you can cover all the different default text from different browsers
• The <b> is deprecated in xhtml so in your css use your font-weight attribute
• align is depreciated also so make sure you use your text-align attribute in your style sheet
• bgcolor is another depreciated attribute now too. You have to do it here in your css
• You are not allowed to use <u> now either, so you use text-decoration instead in your style sheets
• you can change your pointer on mouse over links
• you can change the color or size on mouse over for links
• you can also have your links underlined or overlined on mouse overs with css
• You can control how your lists will look
• You can place a graphic or a block of text anyplace on your page you want
• you can also say what type of border you want and how thick to make it
• With css you can indent each paragraph
• With css you can capitalize first letters
• you can also have multiple style sheets so your guest may choose which one to use
• You can repeat your image horizontally in a single line or vertically or have it repeat over they entire page.
• You can place one object behind another or text over an image
• you can use inline css for anything now - but in future versions it is not going to be allowed.

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