Styling your first webpage with CSS
This article is part of a series:
- Your first webpage with HTML and Netlify
- Styling your first webpage with CSS (you are here)
If you’ve followed along, then you’ve created your very own webpage using HTML and put it on the web using Netlify. You probably noticed that it’s very plain-looking. That’s because we haven’t specified how anything should look. By default, the browser applies some basic styles—headings are big and bold, lists are indented, links are blue and underlined.
These default styles get the point across and make the site usable, but we could definitely make some improvements and use our own sense of style to add some personality. Design on the web is a big, wonderful world, with many resources to help yourself learn and improve. Here’s a great book on web design made for non-designers.