| Weather you are getting traffic to your site or not, | | | | looks of your site from background color to the |
| CSS has many benefits you simply cannot live | | | | space between lines of text from just one CSS file! |
| without. It will create a better user experience and | | | | Having all these controls in an external file also makes |
| also could be the deciding factor in the order of the | | | | your HTML code as small and simple as possible. |
| top 10 Google ranking sites for your keywords. | | | | Search engines love it. Your page code is cut down |
| CSS is vital to your websites success. The online | | | | heavily and this will increase the prominence of your |
| world is very competitive so you need every edge | | | | keywords. The more prominent a keyword is, the |
| you can get. In the constant battle for search engine | | | | higher you will rank in search engine results. CSS could |
| domination, every single factor in your SEO campaign | | | | be just what you need to push your website to |
| must be considered essential. CSS is without a doubt | | | | page one search results. |
| vital to your rankings. | | | | CSS will also increase the download speed of your |
| CSS has advantages as a coding practice because:- | | | | website. This is a great advantage as visitors will |
| • The style of a whole website can be | | | | often be put off by a slowly loading page. |
| changed by editing one file (saving hours of | | | | One massive advantage of CSS files are that they |
| re-coding) | | | | allows for web pages to be cross-browser |
| • Code size is cut down and therefore so | | | | compatible. In other words, the webpage is displayed |
| are loading times | | | | exactly the same in, for example, internet explorer |
| • Users of different browsers see the same | | | | as it is in Firefox. You may not have known that |
| end result when your page is loaded | | | | there were differences, as it seems ridiculous, |
| • It also has SEO benefits! (as discussed | | | | however different browsers interpret code |
| below) | | | | differently and so display pages differently. Before |
| CSS files are a way to define the appearance of all | | | | implementing Layout CSS, some websites look fine in |
| many of your web pages from one file. This is great | | | | Internet Explorer 6 but that are almost unreadable in |
| because it means that you can change the color of all | | | | Firefox and vice versa. CSS files are read the same in |
| the text in your website at once, or change its size. | | | | all browsers and so you know what your users will |
| You can exercise a vast amount of control over the | | | | be looking at when you publish a page using CSS. |