Good News! Free CSS Templates! What is a CSS Template good for, you may ask? Well then , here I go.

CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheets, a relatively new feature, added to HTML, that gives developers and users more control as to how webpages can be displayed. With CSS the designer and user can create style sheets that define how different elements, like headers and links, will appear. These Style Sheets can then be applied to any Web page.

CSS provides a standard for specifying the appearance of text and other elements. CSS was developed for use with HTML Webpages but it can also be used in other situations, notably in applications built using XPFE. CSS is typically used to provide a “library” of styles that can be used over and over for many related documents, like a website.

CSS enables designers/users to separate the styles and layout of the web page from data or information. Styles such as fonts, font sizes and margins can be specified in one place so that Webpages are directed from this one master list, with the styles cascading throughout the page or the entire site. With CSS users can define how certain HTML, DHTML and XML structural elements, such as paragraphs and headings, should be displayed using style rules instead of additional markup.

Cascading Style Sheets are a breakthrough in Web design because they enable developers to control the style and layout of multiple Webpages all at one time. With CSS, when you want to make a change, you simply change the style, and that element is updated automatically wherever it appears within the site. Since it’s likely that different browsers will implement CSS a bit differently, the designer must test the page with different browsers, although CSS has been implemented already for IE and Netscape browsers. CSS is W3C standard language and now CSS2 (Version 2.0) adds support for XML, oral presentations for the visually impaired, downloadable fonts and other enhancements.

Well, is CSS available in templates? Yes. And, CSS Templates are advertised free of charge, for any of you experimenters out there. Look at Free CSS Templates. This friendly website is owned by David Herreman and displays several CSS Templates. If you try one out, let us know how it feels.

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Arthur Browning