Wednesday 17 April 2013

Best CSS Practices you Should Know While Developing a Site


CSS or also known as cascade style sheets are great time savers. When time and money is a big concern about your web designing, CSS certainly brings in some advantages, that no other platform were ever been able to do before. With the use of CSS, you can create high quality and professional looking content without having to lose much. CSS gives a detailed presentation of the basic code that you have used. CSS helps with modifying with the colors, the graphics, the fonts, the layouts, etc. Today, let us check out some of the other CSS practices that we can use to develop a website.

Best CSS practices
Best CSS Practices



Image Gallery with Hover Preview
Alert Box
A-Z index listing
Text effects
Creating a sliding image gallery
Rounded corners

How will it be, when the users of your website can view the preview of the thumbnail, by just placing their cursor on it? Yes, CSS has made it possible. You can just place your mouse over the thumbnail, and a preview will come floating up. So, you can view that image, without even having to click on it and going on to another page. This is saving your time now.

Alert boxes are very important and look extremely good. With the use of CSS, you can make it more interesting. Like, if there is a stop alert or an error, you can use a red alert box. If it is a success alert, you can use a green box and you can also use other color boxes, depending on the mood and the urgency of the message.

A-Z listing can come in handy, when there are a lot of contents and pages on a website. With the help of the A-Z listings, you can list all the contents and pages of your website in alphabetical order in minutes. This will make the website more user friendly and will attract the search engines more. 

Text effects are a wonderful thing. Most web developers use third party tools to use text effects and this makes the texts look ugly instead. But CSS helps you edit your texts in real time and gives you a better view. On the other hand, texts that are being edited by CSS are given more priority. So if you have a keyword as an edited text with CSS, you are playing a winning hand. 

Creating a first impression for the user is very important and the vitality is unexplainable. So, having a sliding gallery on the welcome screen will increase your chances of having a better first impression. CSS allows you to have perfect and the most error-free sliding gallery to swing the user’s attention towards your product.
Rounded corners are a new addition to the CSS family of features. Added newly in the latest CSS3, rounded corners can make your images, tables and menus more attractive and fun to use.

CSS is all about consistency, if you make a change in one page, CSS will save that setting to other pages too. CSS is search engine friendly and are more cross-browser compatible. You cannot think of a reason why you should not use CSS for your website design

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