All of our websites we design here at Nealon Web Designs are CSS/XHTML based. Well, except for the flashed based sites. When we tell this to potential clients we are often asked, “What is CSS?” Well, this article will by no means be the most informative article ever written on CSS, let us give you [...]
All of our websites we design here at Nealon Web Designs are CSS/XHTML based. Well, except for the flashed based sites. When we tell this to potential clients we are often asked, “What is CSS?” Well, this article will by no means be the most informative article ever written on CSS, let us give you a brief introduction to our favorite way to build sites.
CSS Style Sheets
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. When used in conjunction with HTML/XHTML these style sheets make styling a website’s elements and updating them very fast and effective. The CSS used to style a site is contained in a file in your site’s directory. This file is called a style sheet. The pages in your website can either link to or import. When a web page links to that external file it inherits all the attributes of that CSS style sheet. In each site, there is usually a very limited number of style sheets, one or two, that all the webpages link to. This means that changing the styling of elements is easy. To change the styling of an element, only a change to the style sheet is made, every webpage that links to it inherits those changes. This saves time because you don’t have to go through all your pages and update them. Simply update the CSS style sheet and every page gets the change!
What do you mean, “Style an Element”?
When we build a website, we style almost every element in the website. Paragraphs, headers, links, page division (divs) and sometimes even images all get styled. To style something is to use CSS to tell the web browser you are using, how to display each element. Lets use paragraphs as an example. A paragraph can be styled in many ways. We can tell the browser which font to display paragraphs with, what size the font should be, what color paragraphs should be and so on. To tell your webpage how to display each element is to style that element.
We love CSS!
When choosing a web designer, make sure they use CSS as much as possible. There are instances (such as tabular data) where CSS might not be the best, but 98% of the time you want CSS being used. CSS saves time which saves you money.
All of the sites we design take advantage of CSS. Allow us to show you how our CSS based websites are superior to many of our competitors’ designs. Contact Nealon Web Designs today by filling out our contact form or calling us Toll Free at 866-606-3977.
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