Cascading Style Sheets

CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. A style sheet is simply a text file that controls and manipulates the presentation of your content (which in many cases will be marked up in HTML format). Style sheets can make your life much much easier because one style sheet can control multiple HTML files.

You can easy make Web pages that do not penalize individuals with handicaps, when viewing a usual graphical presentation of a Web page either more difficult or impossible.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) open the way to easy produce more advanced and interactive Web page design and gives you full control over font sizes, margins and positioning and more. Many of this is very difficult to achieve in straight HTML. Using CCS instead ensure that no one need be excluded from viewing and understanding your Web pages content due to a visual impairment.

In the past and now many Web designers resorted to all sorts of HTML tricks to present more versatile and complex Web page design. The result of this is that many current Web pages are a mass of multiple nested tables and other HTML elements. The term spaghetti code is often used for those Web pages and the Search Engines do not like them. Imagine you self as a Web spider that are stuck in multiple nested tables and trying to find the way out.

Many of those Web pages may be visually appealing but they are a nightmare for visually handicapped surfers.

Strange, but many Web designers still continue to utilize the old "tricks of the trade", while all current major Web browsers now supporting CSS.

CSS is not just for profession Web designers or developers. CSS is easy to learn and can be used by anyone who wants to have greater control over the appearance and display of the Web pages.

CSS also works well with the latest XHTML / XML standards. XHTML standard even mandates the use of Cascading Style Sheets.

So, if you are serious about your page viewers and Search Engines (better ranking position) I hope that this given you answer to "Why learn to use CSS?".

After staring to learn and implement CSS on your Web pages, you soon start thinking "How to make my pages free for tables?" I don’t say that your pages should be free for tables, but never use multiple nested tables.

Feel free to look at the source code of this page and you don’t find any tables and you can do it too.

So – make your Web pages more user friendly (stop penalize individuals with handicaps), more Search Engine friendly and ready for other devices like WEB TV and mobile or cellular telephonees.

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