CSS Questions

Ok I have some CSS questions. I am pretty good at html and can do a bit of php so I am interested in learning CSS(I already know a bit) but I cant really find out what the advantage of css is. Like how does it make your site look better? Could someone give me an example of a site using CSS and A site not using CSS?

Sorry if this is in the wrong category.

Thanks in Advance
-Elivmar ~(E)~

CSS is helpful because you can manage entire website's designs with one or two files. The ability to change font color, design placement, sizes, alignments, etc are nothing short of what CSS can do. As well; it requires much less code.

hello.
I suggest to open this web site in Firefox and then go to menu -> View -> page style and choose 'no style'. You will notice the difference between a css site and a non-css site

i usually do all the design of the site in css. The html file contains only the content (text, images) - no tables and no desing at all. Then with a .css file i give the site the design. This way i can only have one content and as many designs as i want

Yes, it makes things very easy. Like Ioana does, she codes it the way she wants it then just works on the .css file, and that's it.

A classic example is imagine your a webdesigner for a big company and your boss just said to redesign the site. Okay, normally, one would have to go back and change all the <font> attributes and all the margin attributes. That would take ages. With CSS one would just be able to edit the css file and change the design completely.
A good example of same-code, different CSS is http://www.csszengarden.com

You'll like CSS, I know I do.

CSS doesn't make a site look better, it makes a site function better, because it seperates style from structure, giving you more freedom and control, ala zengarden.

if you write all the CSS as <font>tags and bgcolor attributes, it'll still look the same as css vlaues.

Originally Posted by Elivmar Ok I have some CSS questions. I am pretty good at html and can do a bit of php so I am interested in learning CSS(I already know a bit) but I cant really find out what the advantage of css is. Like how does it make your site look better? Could someone give me an example of a site using CSS and A site not using CSS? Sorry if this is in the wrong category. Thanks in Advance -Elivmar ~(E)~

CSS does not make a site look better, It just separates the content from the design style. The advantages of this is you can alter the entire look of the site by editing a single file instead of every single page. It helps search engine spiders crawl your site faster and easier. It means faster page loading times because once your browser has cached the .css file it only has to read each new .html page to load the content. It means you can design without tables therefore helping search engine spiders, again. It means you will not have bloated .html files anymore as it cuts down on tons of unecessary tags. It means you can also join the bandwagon that everyone seems to be jumping on.

It does make your scripting look better though

i wish more people would start using XSLT too.
it's a undiscovered gold mine, in most cases anyway