What is CSS Web Design?
Efficient, Flexible Web Page Design
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) offer a way of keeping content and design elements separate. Because this separation allows us to include more meaningful content on each page, Web sites designed with CSS often provide their owners with more benefits than older table-based Web sites.
Why Use CSS?
Briefly, there are three main advantages for any business that embraces CSS:
- Ease of Maintenance - A web site designed with CSS allows design elements for an entire Web site to be changed in a single file. When you want to change the type size for a heading or for paragraphs throughout the site, your designer will be done in minutes or even seconds rather than in hours. The larger the web site, the greater the benefits of switching to CSS will become.
- More Search Engine Visibility - By reducing unnecessary tags, such as table tags, the actual Web page content may become more readily apparent to search engines.
- Accessibility - Though switching to CSS does not necessarily result in more accessible pages, at the very least it allows a skilled designer to remove unnecessary clutter and leave clues for those who use assistive technology to view your pages.
Is CSS Web Design Best for My Company?
What will dictate your choice of Web designers will usually have more to do with the specific features your company needs than with the underlying technology. However, if you are a new company who needs to rise through the search engine results pages quickly, a CSS driven Web site will help you more than a comparable old-style table based design. The reasons for this are listed above. As I mention in this article comparing CSS and table-based design, now that we have learned a way that produces Web sites with more flexibility, ease of maintenance, accessibility, and search engine visibility, there is no reason to go back to the past.
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