With CSS background properties, it’s easy to create a great looking website. Properties like background images and background gradients make your website look exciting, but also with a repeating background cool effects can be achieved. This tutorial shows you some examples of how to create your own special background effect.

This second blog in the series about CSS properties discusses border properties. With border-styles, border-radius and border-images cool designs can easily created. This articles describes how to use these border properties and illustrates them with examples.

CSS font properties are used for the styling of text on your website. Font-weight, font-style and font-family are examples of properties that can be modified using CSS. By adjusting these properties, you can optimize your text for readability and change the look-and-feel of your website. With the introduction of CSS3, additional font properties are defined. Text shadow is one of these properties. This tutorial describes the most-used font properties and illustrates them with examples.