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Cascading Style Sheets
- What are Cascading Style Sheets?
Cascading style sheets are a simple mechanism for adding style
(e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. CSS allow for
more control over how pages are displayed. Designers can create
style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers
and fonts appear.
- Why should I use Cascading Style
Sheets?
The primary reason people come to our web site is to find
information. It’s our job as content providers that the information
be as easy to find as possible. One of those ways is to standardize
on a look and feel for the site. Now, we’ve started that with
the templates. We have a standard header and footer that allow
a user to navigate through our site. This brings a level of
comfort and familiarity that is good for a user to experience.
If they do not experience this, they could become frustrated
and leave our site.
We are now going one step further with the layout. This is
where CSS come in. Style sheets allow us to standardize what
the text looks like on a web page. Every web page created that
uses will style sheet will look like the rest of the college
pages. This creates a professional and polished site, rather
than a thrown together site which is what our site resembles
now in many instances. It’s very jarring for a user to navigate
our site because as the person goes from area to area, the look
changes. It may cause a negative reaction for a person who visits
our site and that’s something we want to avoid.
| CSS style |
| accentcell |
| colon |
| heading |
| secondarynav |
| shadedcell |
| subheading |
| teritarynav |
| topicheading |
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