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What is CSS?
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS was designed to enable the separation of website presentation (fonts, colours, layout, etc) from the website content.
Although css can be inline or embedded (in which case the css appears in individual web pages) - the real power of CSS lies in the use of external style sheets. 'External' means that there is a separate CSS file that all website pages reference for their presentation.
What are the benefits of using CSS?
Much more flexible CSS allows you to control the style of multiple pages at once. It is therefore much faster to make a global change to a website that uses CSS, as you only need to do it once. Save time!
Faster download speeds File size is dramatically reduced with CSS - instead of embedded styles in every page of a website, a single CSS file is used which is loaded just once and then cached (stored) on the user's computer.
Search Engine Friendly By using CSS, website content is far cleaner and therefore more accessible to the search engines. Search engines are interested in content, not code. The easier is is for them to access website content, the better your chance of ranking well for your content.
