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If you want to design a website it is important that you understand the fundamental building blocks of web design.

Even if you’re using a content management system such as Joomla or Wordpress, or using premade templates with a what you see is what you get HTML editor it’s still important to understand how HTML and CSS work together to create web pages.

This article isn’t designed to teach you everything you need to know about HTML and CSS, but after reading it you should have a pretty good idea of how the two work together and how important a basic understanding of them is when you’re designing your websites.

HTML stands for “hypertext markup language” and has served as the basic building blocks of websites since the World Wide Web was created.

HTML is used to create the content, layout, and navigation of webpages.

CSS on the other hand stands for “cascading style sheets” and is used to apply decorations to a website. CSS is generally used to dictate the styles of text and positioning of elements on a website. An easy way to think about how CSS and HTML work together is that HTML is used “create” the website and CSS is used to define how the website is displayed to the end user.

CSS files are generally linked to the HTML document through an external style sheet.

CSS and HTML can seem extremely confusing at first. But the truth is if you spend a weekend or two studying HTML and CSS should have a basic understanding of how both languages work in no time at all.