Cascading Style Sheets

Maximizing the power of your website's presence while at the same time minimizing the bulk of its code requires extensive use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

HTML will never be the same. Period. It used to be that HTML was all that was available to stylize a webpage and position its elements on the page. The problem was that HTML really did a lousy job of providing a good presentation of your website's content.

The way that most webmasters got around this was to weave highly complex code involving nested tables and lots of spacer graphics. This made page coding a complex and messy task not to mention making changes and updates usually turned out to be a nightmare.

Thankfully, this is a thing of the past because CSS has come to the rescue. CSS allows the webmaster to remove styling elements from the HTML and separate the page's content from the presentation.

While this may sound confusing to the average web user, what it does mean is that a website's HTML can now be written with radically simpler code. What does this do for you? Well, it makes webpages load faster, ensures that the page looks good in all browsers, and radically simplifies maintenance of the site as a whole.

In my coding of websites I implement the CSS approach in every page. We are coming up on the release of version 3.0 for CSS and I am very excited about it. Because of CSS I am able to focus more on getting a site to do what it is supposed to do and worry less about forcing my work to load properly in all the different browsers out there.