In today’s post we are going to find out a bit more about style sheets, a truly important tool within digital edition. Style sheets, grosso modo, allow us to introduce some exact instructions and orders so as to present the content of documents and websites just in the way we want or we need. The use of style sheets bring us a large number of benefits. Let’s discover some of them!
Different style sheets for a blog
Firstly, the use of style sheets let us choose the appearance of our websites or documents. This includes the colour, the underlining, the size… of fonts; the distribution an amount of information displayed; etc. Secondly, style sheets are a truly fast way of modifying a whole document whithout changing the information that we want to provide. By only clicking one button we can give our document or website the layout that fits better with our needs.
In the third place, we have to remark that all the detailed instructions that we introduce in our style sheets remain there, which is really beneficial when we want to customize another document in the same way. Moreover, we can obtain all the orders of our style sheet, for example, in a Word document so as to apply identical rules in every document – for instance, the size of headings or citing some bibliography.
As we can see, the use of style sheets can bring us a large number of benefits; the sooner we start to work with them, the better. So why don’t you begin by changing the appearance of your Worpress blog with a different style sheet? Or maybe you prefer to structure some guidelines to present your papers for class. Nevertheless, don’t forget to investigate a bit deeper the style sheets!
References:
- Style sheet (desktop publishing). (2009, December 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved: 22:02, December 20, 2009, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Style_sheet_(desktop_publishing)&oldid=332300316 - Style sheet (web development). (2010, December 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved: 22:09, December 20, 2009, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Style_sheet_(web_development)&oldid=339724625
(Note: in the future this article could be modified several times in order to include more up-to-date information.)
