JavaScript Design

Summary

Whatever else you take away from this chapter, just remember that Cascading Style Sheets are the designer’s best friend. This is true for several reasons. First, CSS provides the tools for designers to create pages that give the designer a good deal of control. Unlike non-CSS design, which relies on using a convoluted system of tables or using bandwidth-heavy graphics, CSS provides absolute positioning and a wide assortment of style, color, and background options. Second, CSS uses less bandwidth than scripts using graphics. Instead of relying on graphics, even ones boiled down to very low file sizes, CSS is nothing but cheap and light text instructions. Third, CSS is reusable. By employing external style sheets, a whole design palette ...