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Cascading Style Sheets or CSS are an important part of modern web site design.
Cascading Style Sheets are a very efficient and useful tool for formatting elements on
within a web page and controlling the layout of a web page. Web designers must be aware
of the use of CSS within the code of a web site. This is needed as the W3C is
recommending the use of style sheets in web design.
XHTML does not support some of the formatting attributes that were available in HTML.
While some of these formatting attributes may still be used under some circumstances web
designers should note that in future versions of mark up languages these features may
disappear completely. This would mean that web browser manufactures will eventually drop
support for these features and web sites that were well designed some time ago will no
longer look as intended.
A similar statement can be made about web design software such as "Dreamweaver". Web
designers who are currently used to generating web pages from within such software should
become aware of the need to use style sheets as the later versions of web design software
will support this way of designing web sites.
It should also be noted that many web page templates are available on the internet that
are still based on the use of tables for their layout. Web designers will need to either
find templates that are based on Cascading Style Sheets or convert templates on hand that
are based on tables for layout to include style sheets and replace tables used for
layout. This area of our web site contains a CSS tutorial that will assist the web
designer to use the latest standards as suggested by the W3C.
Cascading Style Sheets cont . . .
