Posted by Mark Parnell on 10/11/05 06:09

In our last episode, RainLover <SP-AMB-LOCKrainlover@raincity.com>
pronounced to alt.html:

> I BARELY know html...

There's never a better time to learn than right now. ;-)
http://www.w3.org/TR/HTML4/

> as my code would show anyone who looked at it,
> but, I don't know if CSS is 'better' in some way or if it would allow
> a general change across all of my pages if I wanted to do so...

From a maintenance perspective, yes - it means if you ever want to
change the colour of something, make a heading bigger, etc., you only
have to do it in the one CSS file, rather than every HTML file.

From a theoretical perspective, CSS allows you to separate the
presentation from the content. HTML describes the structure of the
content - whether something is a table, a paragraph, a heading, etc. CSS
tells it how it should be presented - what colours things should be,
where on the page to display them, etc. This makes the HTML easier to
read, too.

> (Sadly, I'm not even sure how or what 'style sheets' are, only a

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/

> friend suggested I change to them)

You're lucky to have such a good friend. Buy him/her/it a
beer/rum&coke/water. :-)

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Mark Parnell
http://clarkecomputers.com.au
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