Style Sheets (css)
What is CSS?
W3C defines CSS as "a simple mechanism for adding style to web documents"
(http://www.w3.orgstyle/CSS/).
Style can be defined as anything that adds visual appearance to the page for example fonts, colors, and the placement of elements and images.
Benefits
- CSS is bandwidth friendly: a single file can control the appearance of an entire site, made up of thousands of pages.
- Reduces design and development time.
- Reduces updating and maintenance time.
- Enables us to create a more semantic web that adheres to web standards and W3C recommendations, providing future compliant coding.
- Increases accessibility by removing presentational elements from the markup.
CSU Style Sheets
All new CSU sites are built using CSS for presentation and layout. Style sheets (.css files) should only be edited by the DIT Web Development Team. Requests for additional styles to be added to style sheets can be made through the IT Service Desk.
Further information
Books
Author - Russ Weakley -Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes
Websites
css Tutorial
http://www.w3schools.com/css/
Holy css Zeldman
http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html
css Zen Garden - Resource Guide
http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/resources/