Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is my favourite stylesheet language for changing, styling and maintaining the way my websites work and look.

Townsville computer repairs Nerds use Cascading Style Sheets in all our websites and not only does it greatly reduce the time it takes to build our customers sites, it also give it a much better presentation and uniform style across all pages within the website.

Basically Cascading Style Sheets is a way of controlling how all your pages look based of a set of instructions so you can control the display of multiple webpages through one custom style sheet.

By entering how into your Cascading Style Sheet you can change the fonts, images, positions, heights, widths, margins and colours etc of all the pages within the website from one single page.

What is the difference between HTML and CSS

Simply put HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is used for the actual structure and entering of the content for your website and Cascading Style Sheets is used to define how that content of text and images etc is displayed. What colour the text will be, what type of font it is and the size of your text etc.

The Hypertext Markup Language was never intended to be used to display webpages the way we do today. Originally it was designed, before the internet grew in popularity, to show show some basic text.

As more and more people starting using and enjoying the internet and pretty much every website to begin with was built on Hypertext Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets was added to a company HTML rather than replace it.

Adding direct hard code to your website is not only bad practice and creates more overhead, but is much more efficient.

Where did Cascading Style Sheets start

The idea of actually separating content from presentation actually has its roots in the W3C community going back to 1996. Even back then a lot of people could see compartmentalising both in the foreseeable future would be necessary.

But it wasn’t until the mid 2000’s that Cascading Style Sheets really started gaining traction when Håkon Wium Lie the primary inventor of CSS started campaigning for Cascading Style Sheet integration into modern browsers for text, images and videos.

Now pretty much any internet software and web browser on any device will be able to fully render a website with cascading style sheets embedded into its design.

Why should I use Cascading Style Sheets

• CSS is very easy to work with, it’s not very hard to understand and very powerful.
• Extremely efficient as you are able to update multiple pages or your whole website with a couple of lines of code.
• Web pages will download a lot faster as it doesn’t need repetitive downloading.
• Flexible.

The only drawback with CSS is with many people using different web browsers is sometimes the sites can look a little different within different browsers.

When this happens it is usually nothing major, but a couple of pixels in the wrong directions here and there. Most of the time though it usually doesn’t happen and the benefits certainly outweigh the drawbacks.

For all your website, CSS and computer repair needs please call Ross on 0402 807 890 for a free quote or consultation.