blog - Tue 30th Jun 2009
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Jun 30th 2009 Cascading Style Sheets
What is CSS?
CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is a language used to separate elements written in a markup language. CSS allows designers to bespoke the look and feel of a website design. Designers have total freedom over font, colours, background images, margins, navigations and general layout of a website.
10 reasons to use CSS
• To enhance user experience by making a site more aesthetically pleasing.
• Makes small design updates easier
• Keeps the design consistent throughout
• Allows alternative layouts/templates for example. blog or events pages can have different styles.
• Allows designers and Developers to work independently
• Makes the pages render quicker as CSS files are stored in the Cache
• It is very quick to make small alterations for future development
• For our clients with a CMS (content managed systems) it gives them a robust template for consistant content.
• There are Search Engine benefits as the ratio between code and content is in the favour of content.
• Accessibility - People who experience readability issued caused by the appearance of a page can choose to view it without the style sheet or, if they know what to do, replace it with their own user-defined style sheet.
CSS in various browsers
CSS is handled differently across browsers. There are a number of known bugs in IE (internet explorer) but good CSS can accommodate for these shortcomings.
Ryan
