Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a term describing a stylesheet language used to control the presentation of a page written in HTML or other markup language.
Like other web-related standards and languages, CSS was introduced and is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
When building and maintaining websites, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is about making sites ‘friendly’ to the search engines and helping the sites achieve high rankings in the search results for important keywords relevant to the topic of the website. It is also a service which we, at Magic Web Solutions, can offer separately or as part of a full-scale web development project.
Ajax & Flex Technologies
We can all see the changes happening on the web nowadays, in the web 2.0 era - sites load faster, they are more interactive and often contain audio/video information; sections on a page are updated independently according to user actions, thus the web application is more responsive and generates less traffic; the user interface has become almost as convenient as using a desktop application.
Why is it important to make your HTML code compliant with the accepted standards? There are several reasons to that.
In the earlier days of the Internet, the majority of websites were coded with no standards in mind. As long as they looked more or less acceptable in browsers, nobody bothered to check the code and verify proper nesting of tags. It was also quite common to use tables for controlling layout, which is very easy and often works even if the HTML of the site looks like “tag soup”. Of course, sometimes an attempt at adding more content to the website resulted in having the layout of the website totally broken, but it was often fixed by adding yet another nested table. It added to the code bloat, but nobody cared.
When designing a web site, a typical user screen size/resolution should be considered.
Designing for smaller screen (now-days, probably 800×600pix) will make the life of people with smaller screens easier, but penalise those with larger monitors.
There is a difference between computer screen size, and inner browser window size. As browser menus, and scroll bars take part of the screen estate.
The resource I have always used is Sizing Up the Browsers. This is quite an old page, but the information is still valid.
Recently I have come across this article: Actual Browser Sizes which is more up-to-date, and goes into more details, taking into consideration that some users might not use a full window size for a browser.