What? You're using HTML tables to layout your website? You are sooooo behind
the times! CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) first made their appearance back in 1996
and is currently neck and neck in terms of popularity with HTML-based Web
coding. Using Cascading Style Sheets helps Web designers control fonts, layout
and other design elements efficiently. Some of the advantages to using CSS
include faster download times (BTW - check your website download times here),
shorter development and maintenance time, improved accessibility, more elemental
placement control (type and images) and YES - better search engine rankings. Why
better search engine rankings? Search engine spiders can index more content (and
hence less design code) which for many websites has resulted in higher page
ranks.
Looking for a great resource to learn about CSS and its latest developments?
Check out Veerle's
Blog, a graphic/web designer living in Belgium who has assembled a great
list of resources to help anyone learn the ropes of designing CSS based
websites.
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