Once upon a time web programming was done with tables. Tables are an easy way to section up a web page, and contain different sections in different places. So by using frames and tables we could use HTML to code up and place everything where we needed it. This is still a safe practice because every browser can read and understand tables, without stuffing it up.

There is a problem with tables. It makes for very cumbersome code. It makes a single page larger in file size (not by much, granted – but downloaded again and again it equals a lot). It means that you main layout is based in everypage, so to make changes on one layout, means a code follow-through to correct everything.

Solution? Cascading Style Sheets

A nice introduction, very inspecific and all. it could have been poinient…

When starting to code webpages, I started in Microsoft Frontpage. There are many four letter words (none of them good, and if you string them together it describes it much better) to describe this program now, but don’t desipse the day of small beginnings. One thing it did was teach me that code can be combersome to navigate, and make for long downloads.

Intregued I started using style sheets in the page code (inline css). And i was hooked.

• Getting Started with CSS: A very boring introduction.