As a designer, I am aware that the best practice in designing a website is by using CSS to separate the HTML markup (how it is laid out) from the content of your web pages. By doing so, you provide a much cleaner and often smaller amount of data that has to be read by the search engines to index your website. Effectively promoting better search engine results. Which after all is a key in a good website.

The problem is that there are sometimes different results that the bugs in various browsers can cause no matter how well your CSS is written and no matter how clean the HTML code is.

At Web Considerations, your website will be tested against all of the major and most popular web browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer (currently version 6, 7 and 8). We want you to get the most benefit from your new design and since there are so many different browsers, we want to ensure that you get the maximum exposure with little to difference in how the site will look or function.

If you would like to know more about our testing practices before committing to getting a new website, feel free to contact us, it would be great to hear from you.

Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS) is recognized as the recommended way to maintain the presentational level of a website document.

The main and utmost important benefit of using CSS over presentational markup imbedded in HTML is that all styling can be kept separated from the content of the document. You can create a single CSS file and attach it to your web pages for easy maintenance.

For instance, if you had a website that consisted of 1000 pages and you wanted to change the text color of your <H1> tag, you could easily update all 1000 pages instantly by modifying one CSS file. If your presentational markup was imbedded into each HTML web page, you would have to edit 1000 pages if your website look was to remain consistent throughout the entire site.

Simply attaching one or even a few external CSS files to your web document offers a great number of benefits. It would be difficult to overstate just how beneficial using CCS is but in the simplest of terms: it is obviously much more efficient editing (or maintaining) one file instead of 100, 1000, or 10,000 HTML documents.

Sometimes with smaller sites, some designers may not recognize the benefit but I highly recommend getting into the practice on sites of any size. I can speak for experience… it save huge amounts of time.