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About LinkBacks- 01-06-2005 08:48 AM #1Member
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Thoughts on CSS?
Can I have your opinion on using CSS while doing your site designs? I look at alot of the link pages and most of them do not use this.
Is it a good way to build and modify your sites? What is the big plus or minus in using this. I would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Brian
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I use CSS on my site. I highly recommend it, especially if you're planning to have a very large site with many pages. It's definitely worth the time to learn about it.
With CSS, you can change the look of your entire website with just one file. You can change background colors, font sizes, font types, heading sizes, link colors, link mouseover effects, spacing between paragraphs, colors behind paragraphs, the width of the page, left/center justification, etc. This list goes on and on.
As I said, this is especially useful if you have a very large site. If you ever want to change the appearance of the site, all you do is change the CSS file, and every page within the site will be affected.
Another advantage of CSS is that it speeds up the load time of your pages. Instead of having a bunch of formatting code on each and every page of your site, it's all contained in one CSS file. Since the page has less code behind the scenes, it loads faster.
CSS also makes it easier for search engines to get through your site, because there's less markup to wade through. Less markup, more content.
It's ideal if the search engines find your content first. The first 25 words a search engine "sees" are very important. For some sites that don't use CSS, the first 25 words are menu links along the top of the page or down the left-hand column. With CSS, you can put your content first in the HTML code and you can still keep the menu across the top or the side. The menu list can actually be at the bottom of the source code, and with CSS you can make it appear at the top of the page, or along the side, or wherever you want.
There really is no reason not to use CSS that I can think of. I think it's an excellent tool.
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I always use stylesheets when designing sites.
big plus:
- keep your code (and filesize) of your pages small and neat
- formatting of certain tags (like) to make the page searchengine-friendly without screwing up the layout
- 're'-design a site. Just change your css and voila!: new site
big minus:
- you'll have to learn css
- it probably doesn't work with that 2% of traffic that is using some exotic browser (I never really bothered to check all browsers/versions)
Cheers,
Jeff - 01-06-2005 12:25 PM #5Member
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wow a consesus
a consenses this is a first for any board I have been on. Thanks for the input and Engineer the details are very helpful.
I see there are lots of tutorials out there, can you recommend one or are they all about the same.
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Not a tutorial, but a brilliant example
This is not at all a tutorial, but if you want to see what kinds of amazing things can be done with CSS, check out http://www.csszengarden.com
Click on any of the designs on the right hand side, and you'll see the exact same HTML page rendered with a different CSS file. The differences are amazing! - 01-06-2005 01:39 PM #7Senior Member
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I too would be interested in a recommened tutorial .. is there a Dummies version somewhere? LOL
Originally Posted by islandmaan - 01-06-2005 01:40 PM #8Member
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I agree, the Zen Garden site is really neat. This version of the Zen Garden has an "elastic" layout which allows you to increase the font size while maintaining the formatting. It's amazing what CSS can do. Of course not all sites need to be as fancy as the Zen Garden site, but it's a good example to show the power of CSS.
Here is a good tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
I also have the following links bookmarked. You might find these links useful at a later date, once you get up to speed on the basics of CSS.
http://catcode.com/csstips/classes.html
http://moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/hormenu/
http://checkweight.com/layout.html
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/layouts...NN4_FMFM.mhtml
http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/absolute/
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/css_no12.htmLast edited by Engineer; 01-06-2005 at 01:43 PM.
- 01-06-2005 03:22 PM #9FergieGuest
I can recommend a book: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS
by Dan Shafer It's available at www.sitepoint.com .
I see they have a new book there: The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks by Rachel Andrew. I'll have to get that one, now.
