- Short for Cascading Style Sheets.
- CSS enables modifying the visual behaviour of the HTML tags.
- Allows sites that are friendlier to people with disabilities.
- Facilitates having a more consistent look and feel within the site.
CSS Colours, Fonts, Etc.
- A wise use of them can save you a lot of frustration.
- Generally, changing the look and feel of the scroll-bars and other browser controls is a bad idea.
- Specifying the font sizes in pixels will cause them to not be resizable in MSIE. (an MSIE bug).
- Don't pick colours that are hard to distinguish.
- Try not to make links unrecognisable.
- Use each tag for its logical purpose. (the site should also look good with CSS disabled.)
Written by Shlomi Fish