Advantages of using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

written by: vsplash; article published: year 2009, month 12;

In: Root » Internet » Web design and development

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CSS are used to separate the elements of a page such as color, layout and fonts from the contents in a page such as images and paragraphs and helps better crawler by search engines.

Before using CSS it's really important to have a better understanding about CSS, based on the advantages mentioned below:

Cascading Style Sheets helps your small business website design to reduce overall amount of coding on your web page, by removing HTML pages and including them into a style sheet, (.css file).

This sort of page layout helps in building a web page with smaller file sizes having less code and more flexibility that facilitates easy crawl for search engines.

A faster download speed will make you money? Well, yes. Slow download speed is often cited as one of the biggest usability complaints for websites. A faster download speed therefore leads to increased usability, and a web usability redesign can increase the sales/conversion rate by 100%.

Search Engines prefer pages with less file size, though it's not specified by search engines but logically analyzing it really makes easy access to crawl the pages that is always advantageous.

Search engines generally spider the code at the top of your web page first. For most sites that means the navigation bar will be spidered first (resides at top of page code). CSS enables you to position the code for your content at the top making your page search engine friendly. Properly marked up HTML pages can easily found and properly categorized by search engines.

CSS also helps to hide the content from browser, for eg. You may have some content that needs to appear on the print rather than show up on the web browser or vice versa. This is where CSS helps you to make that difference.

From Search engine point of view, they still crawl and index all of the content and so you need not have to compromise on the advantages the content brings.

So before beginning, try to understand CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and have a perfect idea to build your web page that is more effective for search engine crawl.

Well structured pages are always rewarded by search engines, by using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) designers can create search engine friendly pages with our compromising in on the look and feel features.

To conclude, switching your website from a table layout to a CSS layout can be a long, arduous process, especially for large websites. Given the money making possibilities though, it could very well prove to be well worth it. The more people you can reach, the more visitors you'll get to your site and the more enquiries or sales you should get.

vSplash Tech Labs Pvt Ltd , a website design development company India offers website design solutions for small and medium size enterprises. Reach us at: splasharticles@gmail.com

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