CSS3 Websites

CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the formatting of a document written in a markup language. In more simple words, CSS is used for adding style (fonts, colors, spacing...) to web documents. It can be applied to a variety of XML documents, from HTML and XHTML to SVG and XUL. It offers exciting possibilities to create impact with a design.

CSS is designed to enable the separation of the content of a website from its presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control, and reduce complexity in the structural content.

CSS3 refers to the latest standard, which has additional capabilities far beyond the possibilities of the first two generations. Its earliest drafts were published in 1999. CSS3 is divided into several separate documents called modules. Each module adds new capability or extends features defined in CSS2.

CSS3 is a powerful tool for web designers to enhance the appearance of a website. Although these features might not be absolutely necessary to the functionality of a website, users are getting used to see awesome looking websites that operate cleanly and that is what they are expecting to see.

The modular structure of CSS3 allows developers to build content-rich web pages with relatively lightweight code requirements. More striking visual effects, better user interfaces and cleaner pages that load faster can be achieved in an easier way than ever before with CSS3. One handicap that appears when using CSS3 is the requirement to implement filters to ensure a website will look the same using different browsers. However, CSS3 can still be incorrectly interpreted by Firefox or Chrome.