The Importance Of CSS In Web 2.0
There’s a lot of hype about CSS and for good reason.
CSS provides a fast, clean, efficient and very powerful method of
styling websites and so much more. CSS can be used for many different
aspects of the web including design and functionality.
Various
things CSS can be used for include, font styling, web page layouts,
expanding menus, roll over effects and so much more. All these things
mean CSS has pushed the web into a new era creating a smarter, more
efficient internet than we have ever seen before.
Dynamic content and CSS styling
Dynamic
webpage’s created using languages such as ASP and PHP work hand in hand
with CSS to provide easy to edit webpage’s. With multiple CSS files
including a master or main CSS file your dynamic code can be kept short
and sweet with far less filler code for you to sort through to make a
simple style change.
File Structures and CSS
If you have a
large scale website using separate CSS files per section your site will
be easy to maintain, update and edit. If you were to have four sections
to your site for example the home page, links page, help and a contact
us page. Your CSS file structure would look like this:
Master.css
This file would control things that are required on all the pages of
your site such as menus, footers, header, body attributes, head tags
and even the basic layout.
Home.css
The home.css file would be used to control content specific to the home
page its self such as the pages layout and specific attributes.
Links.css,
Help.css, Contact.css would be used to control attributes and the
layout of the files they control e.g. links.css would control the
relevant file such as links.php.
So to sum up CSS is a fantastic
web language and the future of the web itself. Learning CSS can be
challenging if you have no web experience however if you have already
used web based languages before than CSS can be a fun and fulfilling
language to learn with many practical uses on the web today.
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