How CSS can earn money for you

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) maintains the specifications of CSS, which is a stylesheet language describing the presentation of a web document written in any markup language like HTML, XHTML, and any kind of XML document like SVG, XUL, etc. There are many CSS benefits.

Before we go into the details, let us first see what are the limitations and capabilities of CSS, so that we can understand fully how CSS benefits can earn money for you.

The limitations of CSS

Almost all the previous limitations of CSS have been rectified in subsequent versions of CSS. Internet Explorer 6 does not support as many CSS2 selectors as Firefox and Safari do but Internet Explorer 7 has corrected those shortcomings. Besides CSS offers enough possibilities like conditional comments or hacks to display any website correctly in all Internet Explorer versions starting from version 5, in all major platforms like Windows and Macintosh. With almost all the limitations being overcome in all the major browsers, CSS offers an exciting way to display webpages across multiple platforms.

The capabilities of CSS

Due to the immense CSS benefits, it is being actively used by designers the world over.

CSS was primarily designed to facilitate the separation of content (written in any markup language) from presentation (written in CSS).

A CSS file can be attached to the markup language document as a separate file or can be embedded into it. It allows the same page to be presented in different styles for different methods of rendering like print, on-screen, by voice (when the webpage is read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader), and even on braille-based tactile devices for the blind. It is printer friendly, as CSS can specify typographic characteristics specifically intended for printing.

• For further details, see:
  "How CSS can earn money for you by separating content and presentation"

A CSS file downloads much faster than tables

Tables have to be read twice, once for the structure and once for the content. This increases download time. CSS requires less code and thus is more manageable than lengthy coding of tables.

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  "How CSS can earn money for you by faster downloads and using less bandwidth"

All information of a website can be held in one place.

CSS offers many options for providing CSS information like author styles in the form of external stylesheets (separate CSS-file which the document references), embedded style (CSS code inside the HTML or markup code), inline style (using the "style" attribute). Information can also be provided by user style (a local CSS-file specified by the user clicking on options given in the web browser, which applies to all the documents and acts as an override to the predetermined style, the user agent style, or the default style of the webpage).
The information of the entire website, which may contain from one to a thousand pages, can be collectively held in one place. This facilitates easy updation.

• For further details, see:
  "How CSS can earn money for you by saving website updating time"

A CSS file is more search engine friendly

A HTML page that is built along with a separate CSS file is much more organized and is thus better structured. This makes it easier for the spider to crawl it and thereby give a higher ranking in the search results.

• For further details, see:
  "How CSS can earn money for you by making your site search engine friendly"

A reading of all the above linked articles will enable you to have a complete understanding of CSS benefits and how CSS can earn money for you.