The Rewards of Using CSS to Style your Website Instead of other Older and Primitive Technologies

The Rewards of Using CSS to Style your Websitescreen, regardless of the resolution they use - in
Instead of other Older and Primitive Technologiesfact, it can even be used to make images resize to
Soon after the very invention of the Internet, thefit on a viewers screen. That's 100% Javascript free
true purpose of the world wide web had been lost in- just one line of code, under twenty characters. No
the midst of a swamp of tables and images. Manymessy code, and no broken website if a viewer has
web designers were concentrating on design aboveJavascript turned off or are on a browser which
content and websites started displaying differently indoesn't support Javascript.
different browsers and resolutions. Tables broke, andCutting out all of that useless table, frame and
content was strewn meaninglessly across pages ofJavascript markup from your site not only boosts
clashing colors and tacky images taking minutes toloading times monumentally, but reduces the load on
load on our beloved 56k modems.your web host, saving bandwidth and, therefore,
CSS is a relatively modern web design technology,precious money.
but even in its infancy it is clear that it is the key toYou can already see why using CSS instead of
creating an Internet that is better for everyone. CSStables, frames and Javascript is the best thing you
holds many advantages for both the web developercan do to make your website load quickly (yup, even
and the end user that older, and much more primitivemore so than that new web hosting package you
methods could either not support or, if they did, onlywere looking at the other day). But what about
extremely erratically. CSS is used to style a websitesthose of us who know a website should look great
layout, fonts and coloring, and tells the browser howas well as function great (we are web designers,
to render the elements in a page on screen.after all) - well, CSS doesn't cease to impress when it
Standing for 'cascading style sheets' and invented bycomes to this matter. The fact is that CSS actually
Norwegian software developer Hakon Wium-Lie ingives designers more control over a page than ever
the October of 1994, CSS slashes loading times andbefore - from the font family, to line spacing, the
can be accurately interpreted cross platform. Hakonstyle of bullet points in a list to how the page should
Wium-Lie invented CSS for one main reason - thatlook when it is printed; CSS does it all.
being to separate content from design. All CSS rulesCSS gives designers a level of control that has never
should be kept in an individual file, and these rules arebeen possible before, it loads faster than ever before
called to each X/HTML page so that changes made inand uses less server resources. If your website uses
one file have affects across a whole website - thustables, frames or excessive JavaScript for tasks that
making modification of designs an extremely simplehave much smaller and faster solutions then your
task.website just isn't cut out for the Internet of the 21st
Working cross platform means that your websiteCentury.
which looks great in Internet Explorer 6 on WindowsIf you are looking for a web design company that will
will look just as good on Safari on OSX or Firefox ondesign and build your new or existing website using
that obscure distribution of Linux that that potentialCSS, why not contact Strawberrysoup - a dedicated
client of yours uses. CSS isn't only brilliant crosswebsite design business focused on standards
platform, but 'cross resolution', too. It can be used tocompliance and accessible websites?
make layouts automatically resize to fit on a viewers