In this first lesson, we discovered the magic of stylesheets and the basics of their use.

Why use cascading stylesheets? Because they provide unsurpassed control over the layout of Web pages. They're also the most efficient way to maintain and update a large site, and they make for smaller pages that download faster.

CSS works through individual stylesheets rules that consist of selectors and declarations. These rules can be embedded in an HTML document, linked to or from an HTML document, imported to an HTML document, or added inline within an HTML document. Each method of adding CSS to Web pages has its own benefits.

What's next? In the next four lessons, we dive into most of the individual stylesheets properties that give CSS its power. You've seen a few examples in this lesson. Starting with Lesson 2, we'll explore each in more detail. Here's a quick map of where we're going:

• Lesson 2: Fonts
• Lesson 3: Typography and Layout
• Lesson 4: Colors and Backgrounds
• Lesson 5: Positioning