How are Cascading Style Sheets helpful to a web designer?

Answer 1

You can choose to implement or ignore any technologies you wish. However, CSS is well-worth understanding and using. Standard HTML has very limited display and design options, and no satisfying mechanism for creating advanced layouts. Clever developers forced the table mechanism to be a crude formatting tool, but that was a hack.

CSS provides a much more powerful and flexible tool for laying out your site and specifying its visual design. With CSS, you can modify the appearance of all instances of a particular element at once. (For example, you can easily specify that all paragraph tags will be purple on a yellow background. I don't know why you'd do that.) You can also designate specific parts of your page and style them quite precisely. CSS has a number of page-layout mechanisms that allow you to create a page layout much more reliably than the old frame or table-based techniques.

If you're using XHTML strict, the tags that used to be used for layout and design (<font>, <center>, <b>, <i> and so on) are no longer supported. You're expected to use the CSS variations instead.

Answer 2

The implementation of CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets) increased the flexibility and ease of use in creating webpages.

Using HTML documents, to design a page, one must use the style tag or the even more sated tags such as .

However, this was a problem with large websites as each time you had to change something, you had to edit every single page. This was both frustrating and time consuming. However, this line greatly simplified it:

This meant that just editing the .css file would change all of the pages easily.

Another problem solved was the structure of the html. With many tags around the place, it was severely unorganized. By putting the designing aspects all on one page, it was easier to check or edit.

Finally, CSS increased the speed in which the page loaded by as much as 50%, as it was more neatly arranged and therefore easier to scan and process.

Answer 3

The designer can change the style and can create more HTML tags