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We use "external" CSS (cascading style sheets) to control the basic cosmetics of your web site. We need only to edit these cosmetic properties in one file to update ALL of your sites pages.
Cosmetic properties are defined as characteristics that do not interfere with your visitors' navigational experience.
Let's imagine that you have a web site that you want to change the colour and fonts used in the site. You have 500 pages on your site and you want to change the background colours. You also want to change the font to Times New Roman, and you want to change the body text color to a dark blue rather than black. How difficult would it be to make these changes to all 500 of your pages? It would take only *minutes* using our style of development because they were designed correctly using "external" CSS! If we used straight HTML or inline or even internal CSS on all of these pages (like the majority of web designers do) rather than "external" CSS, I can honestly and sympathetically tell you it would be a major task to make these change on all 500 pages and could take hours - if not days, saving us time and you Money!!!!
That is the magic behind the concept of "external" CSS. It is also a critical element if you make cosmetic updates to your site even once a year as most people do! This is especially true if your site consists of many, many pages.
Let's take a closer look at the changes we made:
It is a complete change in colour appearance; however, it could have been a design time intensive (webmaster nightmare) to change if CSS utilizing an "external" stylesheet had not been used in the original web design.
How long did it take us to make these changes on all 500 pages? A couple of minutes.
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