| In the current scenario, the websites are swiftly | | | | tags formatted with CSS rules makes it much easier |
| populating the web. The design of a website plays a | | | | for the robots to read and index the content. This |
| crucial role in its popularity. Properly designed website | | | | makes the code search engine friendly. |
| with good design tactics definitely leads against its | | | | Use CSS to Style the Header Tags |
| competitors. | | | | Search engines give importance to header tags. As |
| There exist some simple and highly effective | | | | header tags are used to define page structure and |
| websites that use cascading style sheets (CSS). This | | | | simplify page navigation. Using CSS here makes the |
| functionality is implemented in the websites to | | | | header tags appear in nicely formatted and attractive |
| improve the web design and to make the website | | | | text. This increases visibility of the website in the |
| perform better in major search engines. It also helps | | | | search engines. |
| in grabbing quality traffic for the websites. | | | | Use CSS to Create Rollover Images |
| Before going further with CSS Web Design, it is | | | | Traditionally, web developers create rollover images |
| important to understand the meaning and application | | | | using 2D graphics with some complex JavaScript |
| of CSS. | | | | code. This JavaScript code can adversely affect the |
| What is CSS and how it is used? | | | | search rankings of the website. Instead of this |
| CSS stands for 'Cascading Style Sheets' a new | | | | creating a normal text link and using CSS to format |
| functionality widely used for layout and style of web | | | | its appearance is a much better way to create |
| pages. With the help of CSS the presentation and | | | | images. |
| styling code is separated from the actual content in | | | | There are number of benefits of CSS over the |
| web design. CSS implementation consists of few | | | | classic web design techniques. |
| rules which are stored in separate files with a .css file | | | | Benefits of CSS Web Design: |
| extension. Then CSS file is linked from the web page | | | | 1. Separation of Content from presentation: HTML |
| using HTML link tag. | | | | mark-up, text, graphics and multimedia can be |
| In the past decade, tables were the only tool | | | | separated from presentation. |
| available with the web developers to design the | | | | 2. Consistency: CSS provides a way to apply single |
| layout of web pages of any website. But with CSS | | | | style to various pages at a time. For example: to |
| support, web developers now have a choice. There | | | | change the background color of all the pages of the |
| are lots of advantages in terms of web design to | | | | site just make a change in CSS and it will be |
| separate the presentation code into distinct CSS files. | | | | reflected in the entire website. |
| Here are some excellent web design modes through | | | | 3. Maintenance: CSS makes the code clean & clear, |
| which the web site design could be made more | | | | and more understandable which can be easily edited |
| search engine friendly. These are as follows: | | | | and maintained. |
| Use CSS to Structure the Document | | | | 4. Search engine rankings: With the help of CSS, one |
| Content is very important part of any website. | | | | can position the content at the top in the page code |
| Search engine robots read the content of the | | | | to make it SE friendly. |
| website and indexed it. By removing the extraneous | | | | 5. Fast loading: Table-less design diminish the load time |
| table tags and replacing them with smaller HTML (div) | | | | by 25 to 50 percent. |