Developer Shares Beginner CSS Basics While Building Restaurant Website Project

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Developer Dilesh Zingare published the third installment of his beginner frontend project series on DEV Community, documenting his progress building a restaurant website called 'The Bite of Soul.' In this part, he introduces CSS styling within HTML files using the style tag rather than a separate stylesheet. He explains core concepts such as CSS selectors, curly bracket syntax, and common styling attributes like background-image, padding, font-family, and text-align. Zingare also notes practical considerations around file paths when using external CSS files. The project's source code is available on his GitHub profile for reference.

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