sonunigam (Love Geek): Advantages
Flexibility
By combining CSS with the functionality of a Content Management System, a considerable amount of flexibility can be programmed into content submission forms. This allows a contributor, who may not be familiar 0r able to understand 0r edit CSS 0r HTML code to select the layout of an article 0r other page they are submitting on-the-fly, in the same form. *
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sonunigam (Love Geek): For instance, a contributor, editor 0r author of an article 0r page might be able to select the number of columns and whether 0r not the page 0r article carries an image. This information is then passed to the Content Management System, and the program logic evaluates the information and determines, based on a certain number of combinations, how to apply classes and IDs to the HTML elements, therefore styling and positioning them according to the pre-defined CSS for that particular layout type. *04-01-11 - 02:01:59
sonunigam (Love Geek): When working with large-scale, complex sites, with many contributors such as news and informational sites, this advantage weighs heavily on the feasibility and maintenance of the project. *04-01-11 - 02:06:00
sonunigam (Love Geek): Separation of content from presentation
CSS facilitates publication of content in multiple presentation formats based on nominal parameters. Nominal parameters include explicit user preferences, different web browsers, the type of device being used to view the content (a desktop computer 0r mobile Internet device), the geographic location of the user and many other variables. *
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sonunigam (Love Geek): Site-wide consistency
When CSS is used effectively, in terms of inheritance and "cascading," a global style sheet can be used to affect and style elements site-wide. If the situation arises that the styling of the elements should need to be changed 0r adjusted, these changes can be made easily, simply by editing a few rules in the global style sheet. Before CSS, this sort of maintenance was more difficult, expensive and time-consuming. *
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