What Is Making CSS Web Development Revolutionary?

Posted on November 15, 2017 in Q&A SEO

CCS or Cascading Style Sheets is a way of specifying how documents appear when presented. What makes it stand out is because one can separate the structure from the presentation. For years, HTML was the standard, but today, CSS is the new standard. It makes web development a lot fulfilling. Let’s look at the four things that make CSS the future.

1. Speed of loading and downloading websites

Any web owner will tell you that he or she wants the website to optimize the bandwidth and load time. Considering that more and more items are required on a modern website, making that happen on HTML looked like a scaling the Rockies. Even if you did, the risk of slowing down the website was real.

Slow websites consume unimaginable bandwidth and have more bounce-rate that smooth-flowing websites. For a website owner, using CSS is an advantage because it uses lightweight coding and reduces duplication of tasks. Remember that CSS’s most important attribute is that it separates the structure from the presentation, which means it only loads the structure once in a website. This translates to reduced bandwidth and increased speeds.

 

2. Easy maintenance and update

Most websites are intended for SEO, which means regular update and maintenance is a necessity. To update a website, you need to code or simply apply pre-done codes for certain tasks. To do so, most websites coded in HTML require line-by-line coding.

In fact, if you need to change just the background color of a webpage, you require line-by-line instructions. This is not a problem if your website has a handful of pages. If your website is a database of hundreds of pages, then line-by-line coding becomes awfully cumbersome.

With CSS, all you need is one code then apply it to all other pages that you want to change. The essence of CSS is to reduce bulky coding. Which means you can maintain and update a website through a simple application.

 

3. Greater control in presentation

According to David Lubbat, custom websites is the new phenomenon. This is because of the various needs of the customer. This new era where people don’t want standard brings with it a fair share of challenges to a developer. If you need to make a custom website, then, everything ought to be within your control. CSS gives you that control.

You don’t want just the control of how pages appear, you want to be in charge of the way pages appear, how media is displayed and how the user can interact with the same. CSS allows you to plan how each sheet appears on your website. This means, you can code text first, then graphics later if you deem it fit that way or the other way round.

You can also code how each page appears on different devices, browsers, and outputs. You can even specify how the page prints, all in a simple code.

 

4. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

You want your page to rank first on search engines. To do that, you need a site that is easier on the eyes of the search engine algorithms. Coincidentally, what is easy to read with your naked eye is also very friendly to search engines.

The lightweight code and its ease of access make it very easy for any search engine. It, therefore, takes less time to scan and understand the website. However bulky the website is, it only takes a few seconds to read if it is done on cascading style sheets.

In conclusion, CSS is not just an awesome way of coding; it gives the developer, the user and owner something to smile about. Also, it brings out the soft side of web development because it is all centered on how the viewer and the owner can benefit.