Sep 21 2008
The advantage of learning HTML and CSS
Programs like Dreamweaver or FrontPage are great to learn and use, especially for website designers who mostly are concentrating to the look of the website and leaving the programming part to the website developers, but the advantage of learning HTML and CSS is that it will give more control over the layout of the website and not just.
These programs are for old style websites using “table” structures, which probably will not have a long life. A while ago most web developers started using “div” structure with embedded CSS. Nowadays everybody is using and it has became a favorite even for the search engines. Search engines can only ’see’ the text between the html tag elements of a website page’s structure. They can’t see the images, multimedia objects, movies, sounds, however there are other methods how to make them readable for the search engines. This is why it’s important to use html tag elements only as much as it is necessary to build a webpage.
Most of the html tag elements let you to define their look by adding styles to them. The styles are stored in another file, having the .CSS extension. So when search engines are reading a page, they don’t have to bypass every style of every html tag to search for the important text between them.
By learning HTML and CSS you can control the layout of the website even for the smallest detail, like setting the distance between two rows, the distance between the links in the main menu, or even a relationship between an image and a text by positioning it to the left, right, above or below of it.
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