Advantages of using Cascading Style sheets in websites
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by: johnson1986
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 Time: 2:15 AM
A full fledged online web portal will be having good and engaging content and attractive images and layout. The content and the images should be placed in such a way that the final look of the website is very appealing. CSS stands for cascading style sheets and gives emphasis on separation of document content and document presentation. This separation will give better accessibility to the content, providing more flexibility and control in presentation of web pages. You can control the font, layout, colour and style information of an entire website through a single CSS sheet.CSS accompanies a lot of advantages which makes it a very popular tool in the modern web design culture.
Following are the few merits of CSS, which you must read:-
Easy to change the layout design: It is very easy to make changes to the style of the document using CSS as compared to table based design. Just by modifying a single css file, you can change the look and feel of the entire site which makes it indispensible for large sites.
Small file size: When the users navigate to the web site the CSS style sheet is only downloaded once by the browser and will be reused for different pages in the website. This reduces the band width requirement ensuring faster download
SEO friendly web pages: Since the html code is clean and strong, the search engine robots don’t have to separate real content from the junk code. You are free to put the content anywhere in the page with CSS.
Compatibility with the browsers: W3C has set the web standards and all the web sites and the portals must be designed adhering to w3c standards. The content of the site must be tested in all the browser for compatibility which is made easy by the use of CSS
Consistency: CSS provides consistency for layout design and navigation. The look and feel will be the same through out the web site which was done earlier by frames. But updating the changes was a complex process
Superior styles and layouts: CSS offers a wide range of styles rather than supported by html.
CSS is widely followed by web designers for optimizing the look and feel of the online web portals all across the globe. You can make use of the CSS based templates for the easily format and style the web pages.
About the Author
The author is an expert in online ecommerce industry and is very adept in html and CSS coding. His association is nowadays with http://www.css4me.com
