CSS
CSS, short for Cascading Style Sheets, a relatively new feature being added to HTML and standard in XHTML that gives both Web site developers and users more control over how pages are displayed.
With CSS, designers and users can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear along with colours position of text and picture and general layouts. These Style Sheets can then be applied to any multiply Web pages by changing a single file.
What is CSS and how is it relevant to web design?
- CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
- Styles define how to display HTML elements
- Styles are normally stored in Style Sheets
- Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem
- External Style Sheets can save you a lot of work
- External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files
- Multiple style definitions will cascade into one
CSS is used by both the authors and readers of web pages to define colours, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS).
This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentational characteristics, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content thereby decreasing the time to load pages.
Welford Media and CSS
Welford Media believes in making the web a better place, by producing compliant webpages. All of Welford Media's website use CSS, this not only helps with search engine ranking, accessibility, usability, browser compatibility but also help prevents error and can decrease the time to wait for a page to load.
To check CSS compliance of any website you can go to
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
and type down the web address you would like to check.
What next?
Welford Media is always watching out for new web standards, changes in search engine ranking methods, new technologies etc.. So by choosing Welford Media as your professional web development company your website will be produced using the most up to date standards.
Please also check out our Validate XHTML webpage