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CSS Style Sheets & Web Design:
PageTrends Provides CSS web page design services. CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) technology has been around for years, but due to the standards becoming more prevalent in the newer browsers, including Netscape & Mozilla, PageTrends is taking advantage of the benefits CSS design has to offer.
First you might ask,"what is CSS design"?
Well CSS is a language, separate from HTML or XHTML, designed for specifying the layout or formatting properties of the various HTML elements in a document. For example, a CSS statment like the following
body { font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
color: black;
background-color: white;
}
means that, inside the BODY of a document, the desired font is Arial, the desired text color is black, and the desired background color for the page is white. More complicated rules let you control underlining of links, the placement of background images, the widths of margins, the colors of borders around paragraphs or headings, etc.
as an example, the page you are viewing has an "attached" style sheet to control how it looks. This stylesheet is included into this document using a special link element of the form. In fact there are no tables in this document. All the formatting is coming from a style sheet.
The benefits of using CSS for the formatting:
Well there are several benefits that exist when formatting a web page using css. One of the more common benefits is the fact that it is dynamic in nature. As an example of this, we use the style sheet to determine the size, color and properties of the links within our navbar. If we decide to change the color or size of the text links in our navbar, we can edit our style sheet and with one command, change the color of every link on every page.
A more important benefit of CSS that we have concluded is the fact that tables are not needed to create a stylish format similar to the site you are viewing right now.
With this in mind, the page can be developed as efficient as we want it to be. This page design, if we were using tables to create the general look of our site, would range between 25 - 35k. However, by using CSS to formt our site, we have reduced the size of this page to 13k.
The first benefit to this is the fact that our page loads quickly, but there is a much more important benefit to being able to create a page that is rich in content under 25k. That benefit is for search engine indexing purposes.
Search Engines will only crawl up to 22k for indexing purposes, so if we can get more relevant text in a page that is formatted for design yet created for content, the outcome is a win win situation.
Now the search engines can crawl more relevant text within our site opposed to getting irelevant table data.
By far, this has a huge impact and competitive edge in the market place.
PageTrends offers development for strictly developed css sites for this very purpose. They take a little longer to create, but the impact they provide is huge. Needless to say our demand for developing sites that are formatted only through style sheets is increasing, and our team of css developers can just about create whatever design you are needing to provide a professional and efficient presence for your business image.
For further interest in our css development feel free to fill out our form and one of our representatives will contact you.