I like designing web pages. Designing might not be my strength, but i work hard for designs to every websites that i'm doing. Even though I can't design that good, but learning the CSS-way is far more very good. Using CSS in your websites can dramatically increase your website loading performance especially if you use external CSS files.
CSS represents the design layer of a page. If HTML is for structuring the content of a page, then CSS job is on how to present the content of the page. It provides how the HTML be displayed in your browser. The color, borders, font-sizes and its types can be defined in a block of style. Be it internal, inline or external styles, doesn't matter. But deciding on what to use will give you headache-free. Will save you hours of time for revamping multiple-paged websites.
A lot of good websites nowadays are really designed with CSS. CSS short for Cascading Style Sheets.
I won't be guiding you step-by-step on CSS here, but i will just lure you that using CSS in your websites has a lot of advantage especially using tableless-layouts. A lot of web developers and designers that i knew even have a hard time working with CSS. These guys really handles big projects but they don't consider using stylesheets.
But if you really wanted to learn CSS, do it. Don't care about those projects, care that you will learn the latest standards and recommended way of web developing. Projects will just come to you if you have a very good and clean codes and know the latest. Give your client pain-free output especially with design problems.
There's more advantages in learning it than just sitting down working with tables. I myself has stopped working with tables already. I'm not discouraging you from tables, but learn what is new and good.
Learning is fun. It's challenging. I'm not afraid of it. You should not be afraid of it. I learned PHP just by self-studying. So switching from tables to tableless layout is not that bloody compare to PHP.
That's why i'm revamping all my CMS just to switch to CSS layouts. It's fun working on it because you're giving yourself a chance to learn again. Be open for new ideas and trends in web developing because with CSS it will help you also design websites in which has impact when it comes to search engine optimization.
If you want to learn more about Cascading Style Sheets here are some links to site that I recommend:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
W3C: Authoritative information from the W3C. Provides complete specifications, lists of CSS browsers and authoring tools, and information about learning CSS.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
W3C School: CSS:
Save a lot of work with CSS!
In our CSS tutorial you will learn how to use CSS to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets
In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/
Welcome to Dynamic Drive's new CSS library! Here you'll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
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