There are many times that I want to make changes to my site and I dread the project ahead. Why? Because if you have more than 10 pages to make changes to it is going to take some serious time. Imagine having a site with well over a hundred pages and you need to do something as simple as change the color of the font you are using, or change the size by 1 point. Man, it's going to take hours to make one simple little change. So one of two things are going to happen. One: You say the heck with it and don't even bother, or Two: you spend all weekend changing that <font size="1"> to a <font size="2">. Well it doesn't have to be that way any more. Welcome to the wonder world of Style Sheets (CSS).

Now I know what you are saying "but I already use style sheets on my web site". Ahh, yes but do you link to them or are you embedding the code into your actual page. This is where the power of external style sheets come in. Basically we can change any element (that we have defined in our CSS file) in every page of our entire web site by changing only one file. How is this possible? By using external style sheets. All an external style sheet consists of is a few lines of text that you would put into your webpage any way. Then in order to call on or load the style sheet all we need to do is insert a simple linking code. Ok, lets get started...