The Benefits of CSS Design

A Geek's Guide to Style

What is CSS? CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a powerful tool that web developers use to seperate the design aspect of a website from the site's content. Designs that use CSS can speed up your website and save precious bandwidth.

Traditionally, developers have coded their webpages in such a way that the content, the information that your visitors need, is surrounded by "design" code that makes the page visually appealing. This results in large file sizes which means visitors have to wait longer for the pages to load. It also means that the hosting servers are using more bandwidth than neccessary to repeatedly send these bloated files across the internet.

CSS takes care of these problems by removing all the "design" code and placing it into its own file. This one file controls how the entire website apprears on a web browser, and most importantly, is only downloaded one time. This means that each and every webpage has a smaller file size (for faster download). Additionally, since the files are smaller, less bandwith is being used.