CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is now the standard (W3C) and compliant way to format text. It is a standard which is supported in all modern browsers PoppyDog makes use of CSS because of its power and flexibility If you don't know anything about CSS and you don't want to know anything about CSS then don't worry because you can customize the color scheme for your tools by using PoppyDog's Color Scheme control panel (see Setting the color scheme for your tools). When you use this control panel, PoppyDog will automatically generate a master stylesheet for you - basically you do not have to be concerned at all with stylesheets if you do not want to be. However using CSS gives you a great deal of power over how your tool web pages look.

Getting started with CSS

Below are a couple of links where you'll find helpful information and tutorials on stylesheets:
Official Home of CSS Tutorial
Webmonkey's Stylesheet Tutorial
Web Design Group CSS tutorials

The power of CSS

Because we use CSS, this means that our members can supply their own stylesheets for formatting the look and feel of their PoppyDog tools. You can choose to apply a single 'master' stylesheet to all your tools, thus ensuring a consistent look and feel for all your tools (recommended), and/or you can choose to apply a separate stylesheet to each individual tool. For example, this means that the style or 'colors' for your forum boards can be different to the style or colors for your members registration/log on area etc. By using stylesheets you have complete control over how your tools look.

How you can use CSS

Information on how exactly you can use CSS with your tools can be found here: Setting the color scheme for your tools