How Nice Is Css Design ?

nandaspk

Aug 19 2006, 05:32 AM

Hi guys..

I have a website : www.bakoelweb.com
But, some friends comment that that site should be created with CSS layout

What's the advantage of CSS design ? is it really tableless layout ?

Dawiss

Aug 19 2006, 07:14 AM

My opinion.. that your site looks alredy good and don't need CSS use.. maybe you could change thous buttons (contact, portfolio,..) so they don't go up.. but only change color when rollover on them, like to yellow or orange..

electriic ink

Aug 19 2006, 09:18 AM

CSS is great because it can be used to make your webpages load faster. This is achieved by:

Using <DIV> tags (CSS and <DIV> tags come hand-in-hand really, although it's necessary to use them together)
Using external CSS style-sheets

I understand that they help aid page-load speed in the following ways:

In order to load a table, the browser has to make two requests. One gets the structure of the table and the other gets the content. This doesn't happen with DIVs. If your entire layout is DIV based as opposed to table based then the page is going to load almost twice as quickly.
If you use css, then you can set it up so that all your css is in an external file. You can call (correct term?) this file in your html. This external file can be cached. Therefore if it is called on another page, rather than loading it again, the browser just loads it from the cache (or the temporary internet files).

Without this external css file the styling information for every page, which in a consistent layout is nearly always the same, is loaded unnecessarily over and over again wasting bandwidth and slowing page-load times.

I hope you can understand my definitions and that they weren't too difficult to understand. Either way, I think you should use css and div based layouts wherever possible because it does increase page-load times.

The answer to your second question is that it is not compulsory to use DIVs and css together, however most layouts do. It is possible to use tables and css together.

And finally, "how nice is css design?", well just look at cssbeauty.com where some of the best css designs lay.

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Plenoptic

Aug 19 2006, 02:58 PM

Although the site might look good in CSS I think it looks fine already. I like the design, the mouseover navigation, the 3d images, and how you can't mouseover the page you are on. Really the design looks great as it is but if you think you could make it look even better using CSS designs go for it but if you don't know CSS yet I would start to learn and leave the site alone until you get a better grasp at it.

TiKiRoKhaN

Aug 19 2006, 03:01 PM

Its really benificial since it allows your buttons to be statically made, without having to create 4 kb buttons. My website www.claniac3d.com is using a CSS Design, which also allows integration into my forum =)

jlhaslip

Aug 19 2006, 10:47 PM

Another advantage to CSS is that instead of, for example : changing a colour on each and every page of your site, by altering a single file ( the css file ) you can change lots of stuff on ALL the pages of the site with one edit.

grimreaper

Aug 20 2006, 01:37 AM

No Offence But Your Site Would Look Better With A Black Or Red CSS Layout

Spiritreaver

Aug 23 2006, 05:25 PM

Css can CHange your whole page while tables just suck bandwith out like an evil vaccuum table css is simple and very powerful, plus more people can view your site in a shorter loading time, css can do everything tables do plus it has many other functions It makes your page look more professional as well

thewildmen2

Aug 26 2006, 03:57 AM

Hyy Nandaspk, I know you're Indosian right..

I came from Indonesian too,,

You're website looked already good, if you can use the technique css, that will be more good or better to yours website.

darran

Aug 31 2006, 04:02 AM

CSS really makes things more 'lightweight' like what was said in the earlier posts. Another good thing about CSS is that you can make it someway object oriented, what you do in this object could be reflected throughout the whole webpage.

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b1gv1c

Jan 14 2008, 05:28 PM

CSS is great! It makes for simplied editing of a lot of things. One spot to change all syles. Awesome!

Damen

Oct 1 2007, 01:31 PM

Well one great advantage to CSS is the ability to CHANGE your site with a couple little changes to the CSS code.

For example:

If you want to change the color of all your pages font and background color. IF you were using a CSS file all you would have to do is change two strings in that file, and BAM they are changed in all of your pages.

It just makes things simpler to change, in my opinion.

registra6

Oct 1 2007, 09:36 AM

QUOTE(TiKiRoKhaN @ Aug 19 2006, 04:01 PM)

Hello Friends iam joshua a new web designer actually i really wish to be like one of you i visited bakoelweb.com i was suprise to see the amazign design its very nice i am having problem with My dreamwwaver in the sense that when ever i want to create a web site i must use tables and each time i try to type in the tables it dosen shift very well it wont instade the whole text will come in the middle unless i type a whole text and it cover the table spaces before it will be position
please i really like the site i visited and nothing is wrong with it its nice wether Css or not its very good it loaded very fast on my browser so let him not temper wih the code
but can any one tell me how to atleast give me some good tips on how to design a very simple web site like the one inquestion so that i can impress my friends who depends on me for their site
thank you very much

Saint_Michael

Sep 11 2006, 12:31 PM

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http://www.alvit.de/handbook/

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