The Wonders of CSS
Stepping Into a New World
I love learning new things. However, since my first jaunt with HTML in 1998, I have avoided learning anything new about related subjects. Recently I was forced to. I needed to upgrade my website to reflect my new working status, and I can't afford to pay thousands of dollars for design.
So I decided to learn about Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. I had been dreading this. It looked so complicated. Once I'd unraveled the basic mystery though, a million possibilities unfolded before me. Within hours I was hooked. Now, I think I'll be spending far too much time tweaking my website when I should be writing.
The Thrill of the Kill
I found this learning curve much more exciting than I thought it would be. Now I know the basics I'm going to aim for a site that is designed completely by CSS. You might wonder why anyone would want to do that.
Actually it all ties in with search engine optimization. The old HTML files that accompanied websites were (and in some cases still are) positively huge. This means that the loading time for a given site is far too long. If you really want your website to do well, the first thing you need to do is make sure you don't put visitors off by making them wait interminable lengths of time for a page to load.
Here's Where the CSS Comes In
It replaces large tracts of code and even a huge page with elaborate tables can load in mere fractions of a second. Most people are now including CSS in their site design. Some are going for the real thing, and insisting on 100 percent, total CSS design.
If you doubt the wisdom in this, I can assure you that there are some really breathtaking examples of CSS sites around. Just take a look. If you know how to get a peek at the code, by right clicking on any web page, and selecting "View Source," you can tell at a glance if the site uses CSS, as there will be a link to the style sheet within the header. It will probably look something like this:
link rel="stylesheet" href="/includes/fredflintstone-style.css" type="text/css"
Here's just one great CSS resource, although there are a great many really good ones on the Internet: Glish.com.
OK, I'm off to do some more designing. :)
wellwrittenwords
I love learning new things. However, since my first jaunt with HTML in 1998, I have avoided learning anything new about related subjects. Recently I was forced to. I needed to upgrade my website to reflect my new working status, and I can't afford to pay thousands of dollars for design.
So I decided to learn about Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. I had been dreading this. It looked so complicated. Once I'd unraveled the basic mystery though, a million possibilities unfolded before me. Within hours I was hooked. Now, I think I'll be spending far too much time tweaking my website when I should be writing.
The Thrill of the Kill
I found this learning curve much more exciting than I thought it would be. Now I know the basics I'm going to aim for a site that is designed completely by CSS. You might wonder why anyone would want to do that.
Actually it all ties in with search engine optimization. The old HTML files that accompanied websites were (and in some cases still are) positively huge. This means that the loading time for a given site is far too long. If you really want your website to do well, the first thing you need to do is make sure you don't put visitors off by making them wait interminable lengths of time for a page to load.
Here's Where the CSS Comes In
It replaces large tracts of code and even a huge page with elaborate tables can load in mere fractions of a second. Most people are now including CSS in their site design. Some are going for the real thing, and insisting on 100 percent, total CSS design.
If you doubt the wisdom in this, I can assure you that there are some really breathtaking examples of CSS sites around. Just take a look. If you know how to get a peek at the code, by right clicking on any web page, and selecting "View Source," you can tell at a glance if the site uses CSS, as there will be a link to the style sheet within the header. It will probably look something like this:
link rel="stylesheet" href="/includes/fredflintstone-style.css" type="text/css"
Here's just one great CSS resource, although there are a great many really good ones on the Internet: Glish.com.
OK, I'm off to do some more designing. :)
wellwrittenwords
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