Html and CSS:
CSS - Maximum benefits by Zoran Makrevski
Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 05:42 PM
What is CSS?
CSS is a simple file which controls the visual appearance of a Web
page without compromising its structure. Using CSS we can control our
font size, font color, link color and many other attributes on our web
page. This will make our HTML code much more readable and the page size
will be reduced.
Why to use it and how to use it properly
If you don?t use CSS on your web pages and you have many tables and
content on them, chances are that your HTML file size will be quite big.
Fact is that we live in a busy world, and people are not will to wait more
than 5 seconds web page to load.
From the other side some web developers implement the CSS on wrong way.
They write their CSS in HTML code of the page, like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>My Page</title>
<style>
A
{
font-family: Verdana;
font-size:8pt;
color:black;
text-decoration:none
}
</style>
?..
What is wrong with this technique? Well, imagine that you have
site with more than 50 pages. One day, you decide that you want
to change font color and colors of the links on your site. You
will have to edit ALL the pages on your site, and do to that you
will need time, because you place your CSS in your web page.
Better way is to save your visual attributes in separate,
external CSS file, and to link that file with your page
like this:
<html>
<head>
title>My Page</title>
<link href="myStyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
?.
Using this technique, you can change the look of your site within
minutes, regardless of the number of pages, because your visual
attributes are saved in ONE external CSS file. Edit that file,
and you are done.
Benefits
Note: About the Author
Zoran Makrevski
Search Engine Positioning Firm
SEO.Goto.gr
