An unexpected benefit from using CSS

[harv]

A few months ago I took the plunge and rewrote a
huge chunk of my site supertips.com (some 70
pages) to use CSS. One immediate visual benefit
was the smooth flow as I click from page to page
and see the same layout, colour and format for
headings and text compared for example to the
previous assortment of different size headings and
sub-headings.

Two indispensable free tools which helped me

1) W3C CSS Validation Service
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html

This alerted me to invalid CSS which works fine in
Internet Explorer but not in Netscape

2) TidyGui
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ablavier/TidyGUI/

This cleans up your code and also adds the closing
tags for the elements.


But the most unexpected outcome of all this is
that I no longer need to use a web page design tool
- I just use a text editor (NoteTab)


Harvey

[Advisor]

Thanks for the great resources, Harv!

Jill

[Matt B]

I'll bet your page load times are a lot faster as well. That is one benefit we noticed right away. Thanks for the TidyGUI!

[Blue]

Kewl tool! Thanks Harv!:cheers:

[harv]

Actually the best tool of all in my posting is
hidden away in the very last line.

It's NoteTab and it's free at
http://www.notetab.com

Think of Notepad - but 10,000 times better.



Harvey