An Introduction to CSS
By George S. Davidson, published Nov 09, 2008
Behind the simple acronym CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) hides one of the fundamental languages of the W3C standard. Its history goes on parallel tracks than on HTML, which wants to be the ideal complement. Always in fact, the intention of men Consortium, HTML, as well as its recent evolution, XHTML, should be seen simply as a structural language, alien to any purpose relating to the submission of a document. For this purpose, or enrich the visual and aesthetic appearance of a page, the designated are precisely the CSS. The ideal pursued for years can be summed up with a note speech: separate content from presentation.
The first official CSS specification (CSS1) was released in December 1996. In May 1998 it was the turn of the second version: CSS2. Nothing Otherwise, but many additions compared to the first. CSS2 is nothing more that CSS1 with some new properties, property values and definitions for non-canonical styles such as those addressed to the press or the definition audio. E 'current status Working Draft of the new CSS3 specification.
If you are seriously interested in web technologies you can not ignore CSS. Those who know a minimum of HTML is fully aware of the limits of this language on the side of pure presentation.
The best thing is that the management of your site will never be a nightmare. You will no longer need to go and change one by one 300 pages! CSS is separated from the document. Open a style sheet, change the image and you're done. The pages are lighter and easier to edit.
CSS is designed to be simple and approachable by non-programmers.
From: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1162079/an_introduction_to_css.html?cat=15
Behind the simple acronym CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) hides one of the fundamental languages of the W3C standard. Its history goes on parallel tracks than on HTML, which wants to be the ideal complement. Always in fact, the intention of men Consortium, HTML, as well as its recent evolution, XHTML, should be seen simply as a structural language, alien to any purpose relating to the submission of a document. For this purpose, or enrich the visual and aesthetic appearance of a page, the designated are precisely the CSS. The ideal pursued for years can be summed up with a note speech: separate content from presentation.
The first official CSS specification (CSS1) was released in December 1996. In May 1998 it was the turn of the second version: CSS2. Nothing Otherwise, but many additions compared to the first. CSS2 is nothing more that CSS1 with some new properties, property values and definitions for non-canonical styles such as those addressed to the press or the definition audio. E 'current status Working Draft of the new CSS3 specification.
If you are seriously interested in web technologies you can not ignore CSS. Those who know a minimum of HTML is fully aware of the limits of this language on the side of pure presentation.
The best thing is that the management of your site will never be a nightmare. You will no longer need to go and change one by one 300 pages! CSS is separated from the document. Open a style sheet, change the image and you're done. The pages are lighter and easier to edit.
CSS is designed to be simple and approachable by non-programmers.
From: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1162079/an_introduction_to_css.html?cat=15
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