What are the benefits of using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)?
Cascading Style Sheets (often abbreviated CSS) creates a number of key advantages for the website owner. Cliff Rainer, a specialist on our design and development team, has provided the following overview of the benefits of CSS: • CSS accommodates forward compatibility. Some depreciated elements will one day no longer be supported in browsers. These elements include the “font” tag, the “center” tag, the “background” element of the “body” tag, and so on. • CSS effectively separates content from presentation. In other words, to change the content of your site, you would modify one file; to change the presentation of that content, you would change another file (the style sheet). • CSS allows you to create different style sheets for different media, such as the Web, printer-friendly pages, PDA, etc. You can also create different style sheets for the various Web browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.). • KEY POINT: CSS reduces file size because it decreases the amount of markup in the HT