| As promised, for this segment I will start with by | | | | Typesets for the web? |
| discussing "Styles" used in Word Processing programs | | | | I cannot emphasis this enough...CSS Style Sheets will |
| such as Microsoft Word and how you can relate | | | | save you money AND make you more money than |
| them to "Cascading Style Sheets" for the Wide | | | | non-css sites! |
| World Web. As well, I will revisit the primary reason | | | | The best performing web sites on the Internet all |
| why you should care. CSS Style sheets will save you | | | | use Style Sheets for this and a number of other |
| money! | | | | reasons. |
| Word processing and page layout tools all use styles. | | | | MONEY SAVING REASON ONE REVISITED: |
| You may not notice, but the program is organizing | | | | A well constructed website using typesets can |
| your work as you go along using sets of formatting | | | | change many aspects of a site's appearance without |
| rules, or "styles". Many people don't use anything | | | | touching a single web page. This may not seem a big |
| more than the "default style template" when creating | | | | deal if you have only a few pages, but if you have |
| documents in Microsoft Word (for example). In other | | | | twenty, or a thousand pages, appearance changes |
| words, they just go in and start typing. If they want | | | | can prove very costly and time consuming. With a |
| something to appear as a large heading. They will do | | | | style sheet, web developers such as JBCR, could |
| one of two things: | | | | change the look of a 100 page website faster than |
| 1 Select the text with their cursor and select a | | | | we could change 3 pages that do not use a |
| "style" from the list which appears to the left of the | | | | stylesheet. |
| text options, or they will. | | | | One of the huge mistakes many people make is pay |
| 2. Select the text with their cursor and change the | | | | a web designer a great deal of money for time and |
| font size, color and/or font face. | | | | effort to build them a site, with proper stylesheet's... |
| If they chose method one, they were applying a | | | | and then cripple their new site's effectiveness by |
| style from the default master style sheet. If they | | | | abandoning the web designer's "master plan". |
| chose method two, they created a new style that | | | | After their site is competed, they take over the |
| will be added to the document's styles and saved | | | | updating and apply font sizes and colors etc in the |
| with the document. | | | | web pages instead of in the stylesheet. A good |
| Each time one adds a different text style, the | | | | portion of the money they spent on their design just |
| document size increases as the program has more | | | | went out the window. Their site's visual appearance |
| things to remember about how to display the | | | | is no longer manageable from a master sheet. Visual |
| document when it is opened or printed. | | | | appearance changes now adjusted on a page by |
| Size and document structure complexity is less | | | | page basis. You need to know that by doing this you |
| important an issue with a text document than it is | | | | are slowing your own progress to profits down. It's |
| for web pages, but it can cause problems when | | | | "under the hood". You can't see the damage. The site |
| printing, sending to a outside printer or even having | | | | itself may not look any different. The ROI of the site |
| documents crashing or freezing up. | | | | can be affected and the costs of looking after the |
| So how does this apply to the subject of CSS | | | | site are the issues here. |