Web Design – CSS Lifesavers
Found this handy list of “10 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design”. It’s nice to have these all in one list occasionally. Even if you know them, there’s so much to keep track of that it’s good to refresh your knowledge.
One of the points addressed is an area that frequently gets ignored: font options! Sure, you can specify font and size – everybody does that. But so many designer fail to explore the other 80% of what CSS can do with typography. Indenting, spacing, first-letter and first-line properties, and even tweaking the font weight.
Css And Your Web Design
Web-designers use CSS or Cascading Style Sheets for separating page content like paragraphs or images from the stylistic elements of the page. These stylistic elements may comprise of color, fonts, layout etc. The term generally used for this is ‘Separation of Content from presentation.’
CSS represents a breakthrough in web designing as it equips web developers with the ability to control styling and layout of multiple pages all at once. Web designers can choose a style for every HTML element and apply it to multiple web pages at per their requirement. To effect changes globally, the style needs to automatically update all elements in the web.
Css And Your Website
Smaller size files and CSS: you can reduce the overall code-amount present in your web pages. This is possible by taking out styles from an HTML page and putting it a standalone style sheet or .css file. Pages containing less code make for smaller file sizes that are preferred by all search engines. The SEO community generally considers page sizes up to 100KB as good.