| HerbalBiz provides members with an easy to install | | | | CSS-specific "language". |
| turn key web site set up to sell health and beauty | | | | This is an excerpt from the default main.css file: |
| products across the Internet. The package has been | | | | #content h1 {font-size: 22px;font-weight: bold;color: |
| structured to be new user friendly and very little | | | | #336600; |
| technical knowledge is needed to get up and running. | | | | Times New Roman", Times, serif;margin-top: |
| The various reviews of the HerbalBiz package | | | | 6px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 6px;margin-left: |
| emphasize this ease of use capability. | | | | 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: |
| During the site install, a web site style is chosen. The | | | | dashed;border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;line-height: |
| HerbalBiz package comes with a menu of styles to | | | | 32px;padding-left: 10px; |
| choose from to establish the look and feel you're | | | | } |
| comfortable with. And while this provides most | | | | This chunk of CSS defines the look and feel of any |
| people with the level of flexibility they need, there | | | | text that falls into an H1, or header, tag. Changing |
| are others who might want to do some tweaking of | | | | any of these values in the main.css file will change |
| the various visual aspects of the site. | | | | the look of all H1 text in the web site. For example, if |
| The trick to modifying an HerbalBiz site is to have a | | | | I changed the 'font-size: 22px' line to 'font-size: 26px', |
| basic understanding of Cascading Style Sheets, or | | | | all my H1 text would increase in size from 22px to 26 |
| CSS. CSS is a standard used to define the look and | | | | px. |
| feel of data on a web page. Font types, sizes, and | | | | You can do amazing things playing around with the |
| colors can all be defined within what is known as a | | | | underlying CSS of a site. The various sections give |
| CSS stylesheet. A web site can have one or more | | | | you the flexibility to easily customize a site to |
| style sheets that define the look and feel of the | | | | whatever look and feel you'd like just by changing |
| various sections. | | | | values in the stylesheet text file. |
| Other items that be modified via a CSS stylesheet | | | | However, this is not something you want to do |
| include: | | | | without first educating yourself on the basics of CSS. |
| - image positioning | | | | It's important to understand how the various pieces |
| - background colors | | | | fit together bfore going in and changing things. There |
| - page section sizing | | | | are many good free CSS tutorials on the web. Just |
| - margins, borders, and padding | | | | search Google for 'CSS beginner' or something to |
| - link text appearance | | | | that effect. There are also many good books |
| A default HerbalBiz site uses a stylesheet called | | | | available as well. Expect to spend 2-3 hours coming |
| "main.css". This file is usually located in the root | | | | up to speed on the basic concepts. |
| directory of the web site and is retrievable via any | | | | Learning the basics of CSS is the most effective |
| web design or FTP program. Stylesheet files contain | | | | way to customize your HerbalBiz, or any other, web |
| simple lines of text that are formatted in a | | | | site to reflect a look and feel that is truly your own. |