Right about now you're probably thinking "What's so great about that?" The benefits are numerous -- two of biggest are:

1) Easy Site Updates: Global site updates will be simpler when you can make all your changes in one place to update entire site. It's much better than going through page after page of HTML code. For example, say you have a site made in Times New Roman font and your customer calls you up and tells you he wants Verdana. Can you imagine scrolling through 25 pages or more looking for every incident of tag and changing it to Verdana? What a nightmare. With CSS you would simply specify font in one location and change would be implemented site wide.

2) Faster Loading: Your HTML pages will load faster due to cleaner code. All of extraneous coding will be in a style sheet, leaving less clutter and faster downloading of site.

So now that you've seen a few of "benes" to style sheets, let's learn more about them. Let's clarify up front that while both Netscape and Internet Explorer both support CSS from version 4.0 and higher, they don't exactly see eye to eye on CSS and interpret some style properties differently. You'll want to test your pages in both browsers to check and correct any inconsistencies.

So what can you control with CSS? Things like paragraphs

, Headings

, borders, table layouts,Fonts and font colors, text alignment, pixel size, line height, letter spacing, word spacing, font weights, page margins, and even background images; and way they work is a big improvement over just plain old HTML. Are you beginning to see possibilities and just how powerful this can be?

There are three ways to use CSS:

1) Inline: The CSS tags are applied to web page itself, to any body element you choose. This is not best method, as you'll have to find each incidence in web site in order to make changes in future.

Example of this:

Text Here In example above text would be highlighted yellow.

2) Embedded: The actual CSS code is part of HTML page placed between tags on each page. Again, placing tags inside pages defeats convenience of CSS and being able to make global site changes from one document, but some do like to use this method.

2. You can use news links for automated news updates or , another nice features are jokes, quotations, tips. (do a little brainstorming and send them to me)

3. Have you ever revisited a site and wondered whether any thing not readily visible has changed? Put up an "update" or "what's new" section so people don't have to search for new content(the next site is only a click away).

4. Use a tiny image or text link that say "New" or "Update"

5. Put all of your new content at top or bottom or in a designated section and don't keep moving section around, again always use same location so visitors don't have to search or click away from your page