Why you should convert to CSS

Why you should convert to CSS

Introduction

What is CSS? - I hear some of you ask. Well, CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and they have been around since the early 1990's believe it or not.

The Wikipedia definition (changed so that it makes sense!) is as follows:

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a
language that describes the presentation form of a structured
document.

 An XML or a HTML based document does not have a set style, but
it consists of structured text without style information. How
the document will look when printed on paper and viewed in a
browser or maybe a cellphone is determined by a style sheet. A
good way of making a document look consistent and easy to update
is by using CSS, which Wikipedia is a good example of.

So, why should we use CSS?

There are many benefits of utilising CSS on your web pages. Before you skip to the disadvantages, I can tell you now that the advantages easily outweigh the bad points. Below is a short, descriptive list of reasons to make the change:

Save on bandwidth
The more HTML code you use, the large the file size of the page. It doesn't take a genius to work that one out - so the most obvious solution is to cut down on the amount of HTML (something that Yahoo! might want to consider sometime, probably saving them

Introduction

So, why should we use CSS?

Save on bandwidth