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[Clandestine]

Alright i see alot of people saying like, make your site CSS, or i plan on making my site CSS, what exactly does CSS do? And whats the diff from just using basic HTML, and CSS?

thanks

[syndrome]

IN short, HTML basically sets up the page, CSS allows you to style these pages in a VERY efficient, attractive and easy way

[c-c-C-C-UNIT]

It stands for Cascading Style Sheet and they p00n.
You can find out more than you need to know here - http://en.wikipedia....ng_Style_Sheets

[reznamac]

syndrome, on Dec 14 2005, 06:37 PM, said:

IN short, HTML basically sets up the page, CSS allows you to style these pages in a VERY efficient, attractive and easy way

pixel2life.com uses css but not full css. To see full css in action check no advertizing your site , you will notice theres no tables or anything when you view the source. CSS is also more Search engine friendly for many ways. Css also makes your files smaller in some cases.

Edited by Donna, 23 December 2005 - 02:36 PM.

[coolaid]

correct css makes your files smaller in ALL cases, along with saving bandwith because the .css file will be cache'd.

besides, thats not a very amazing css-only site, heres the best one i've seen so far.

http://www.csszengarden.com/

[reznamac]

coolaid, on Dec 23 2005, 07:24 PM, said:

correct css makes your files smaller in ALL cases, along with saving bandwith because the .css file will be cache'd.

besides, thats not a very amazing css-only site, heres the best one i've seen so far.

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Ya im still not done yet. Im halfway done. I was just showing the difference.
My guess is 98% cases yes css will make your site smaller for the first time they go on ,A decient example is bold. To bold in html its just <b></b> in css its much longer.

Your right about the cache, which will always make css smaller than html the 2nd time someone goes on your site. You can also do some other nice things but the biggest advantage to css to me SEO. You put your keywords as your first text without it really showing on top, and more.

If you want to see really good css go to http://www.cssvault.com for some really nice that blows the 2 sites above away. Some really neat things

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no advertizing your site

You got to be kidding. I was giving an example of a site thats not done yet. Its not even on the search engines.. I was showing an example of code without tables since pixel2life.com uses tables. Whats the difference in saying a site Im working on than something on a sig?
You got 2,833 topics of 100% sigs which is almost double of any other topics you have in any forum on here.
Im out bye.

Edited by reznamac, 23 December 2005 - 03:26 PM.

[SKETCHi]

CSS is a wonderful language. It will help you with your website in many ways. Setting fonts, sizes, colors, link colors, background colors and images, all kinds of good stuff. It will cut your coding time way down.

With CSS, you can hold all of visual style information for your site in one file. You tell your pages to use this file and then you only have to edit that one file.

Example: You want your websites font to be Arial, font color to be black and background color to be white.

This code will give your website those settings for the entire body.

body {font-family: Arial; color: #000; background-color: #FFF}

There is a lot more you can do with CSS, including making an entire website without the use of tables.

The best place to learn CSS is http://www.w3schools.com/ They have a great tutorial that covers everything in CSS, even making a tableless layout. It's a great place to learn any web language.