Activity 301: Advantages and disadvantages of CSS

October 19, 2010

So what is CSS for? why bother and why do we use it?

CSS has in recent years taken over web design. It offers a lot of dynamic websites. Things like corners and style of the webpage can be all changed using CSS. Gone with the old fashion blue underlined link and in with the new CSS styled links that is more inkeeping of the look and feel of the persons web design. Another advantages are that different CSS style sheets can style one webpage and therefore allow different look with just one html data.

However, the disadvantages of CSS is compatibilty of different web browsers and devices. They interperet CSS differently and some do not support all parts of CSS tags. So as a developer, you must consider what to use. For example, rounded corners in boxes are done differently as is the drop shadow.

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