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What can CSS do for you?
Cascading Style Sheets, better known as CSS,
are a newer programming language that offers several key benefits,
and requires a lot less HTML code to work. In English? Less
programming behind the scenes means web pages load up faster.
Key selling points for CSS:
- It allows designers to control more aspects
of the web page, including font size and leading (the space
between lines) and other features that can't be controlled
with just HTML.
- Changing one little bit of CSS code can
update an entire web site. Usually, if you want to change
something, like make all the body text a different font, you'd
have to go through each and every page and change the font.
Then, you'd have to upload every page to the Internet again.
That's a long and tedious process. Benefit to designers: faster
changing of elements in an entire website. Benefit for customers:
faster updates to your web site, and less design time that
you have to pay for.
- Lastly, the many design features that CSS
makes available are all attached to one little text file.
In addition to point #2, this means that a site using CSS
will load up extremely fast. Instead of making the web browser
download tons of HTML code to create a particular effect,
all that gets downloaded to visitors is a few small files.
BAM! Your site loads faster and they are ready to look around
at what you have to offer. That's a lot better than them sitting
and wondering “Is this web site ever going to load?
Do I even care to wait?”
StepRock Super Tip: So what
if you're sending huge files. Everyone has a high speed connection,
right? WRONG! Not only does everyone NOT have broadband, but
that's not even the point! Why should your visitors have to
wait 1 second longer than they need to in order to browse your
site? It's just a good design habit to make everything as fast-loading
and well-organized as possible. That's how professionals design
their sites!
StepRock Media Uses Pro software:
- Macromedia DreamWeaver
- Adobe PhotoShop
- Adobe InDesign
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