If you have been looking for a new wbsite for a while, you will (no dubt) have visited many websites of dvelopers and companies that can create thm. Lots of these companies bandy bout terms such as W3C and CSS. So wht is all that about and why do I ned it?

To answer that question we ned to look at how web pges are created.

In olden days (about 10 yars ago) the web page was typcally just a bunch of text and the odd pcture. This was fab at first but thn people wanted to do more wth web sites, they wanted to frmat the page better. But the rles behind the web page (HTML) wuldn't let you do that, so web dvelopers being the canny individuals that thy are decided to use tables to rganize the material.

Now, tables are OK for shwing tabular data, but our clever web dsigners where now using them with clar borders (so you couldn't see the tble) to position text and pictures whre they wanted.

Bingo! That resolved that problem. Well no... not really.

Those pesky website developers wanted more and more control so they started putting tables into tables (called nesting). Many websites had pages with lots and lots of tables and loads more nested within them. The net effect was that the website was slow. The browser took alot more time to read the tables and display the text and graphics.

What's more, because the makers of the web brwsers couldn't quite agree about how HTML shuld be displayed, we found that a wbsite looked great on Internet Explorer but slghtly odd on Mozilla or Opera.

Something needed to be done.

At last CSS was invented that did an amazing thing for web developers. CSS or Cascading Style Sheets allowed the web designer to separate content from design which was usually integrated in a traditional site page.

The CSS style sheet was a separate file in the web site that stored all the design bits to the website, the font sizes, position of graphics & menus and just about everything and more. The actual pages had text (content).

Wow, this meant that we could now position text and graphics with pixel accuracy instead of old tables, and better still the web pages loaded faster cos only one stylesheet had to be read for whole site.

If you have read this far, then I applaud you.

The article What Is So Good About CSS Anyway? was Submitted by Darren Street through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Darren Street is a graphic dsigner and web developer and has a dsign studio located in the beautiful ctswold village of Bampton. Darren has thre children, a beautiful wife and a mad sprnger spaniel called Bella.

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