The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly of Style Sheet Languages
Because of the continuous innovation in web design and development techniques and styles, several languages or tools have been introduced so as to make it easier for web designers and developers to create and maintain a website. Such tool includes the use of WYSIWYG tools such as the popular Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly known as Macromedia Dreamweaver) and Adobe Flash (formerly known as Macromedia Flash). Other tools include the use of Microsoft Silverlight (which is said to work the same way as Adobe Flash) and JavaFX.
Web developing tools such as PHP and Java are now considered as some of the growing side-server languages used for web development. But aside from these languages used by web developers, and tools usually utilized by web designers, the use of Style Sheet languages became in-demand throughout the market. This is because of its several functions usually isn't possible in other web development tools and languages.
Style Sheet Languages
Web style sheets are a form of separation of presentation and content for web design in which the markup (i.e., HTML or XHTML) of a webpage contains the page's semantic content and structure, but does not define its visual layout (style). Instead, the style is defined in an external stylesheet file using a language such as CSS or XSL. This design approach is identified as a "separation" because it largely supersedes the antecedent methodology in which a page's markup defined both style and structure.
The Good
Separation of style and content has many benefits, but has only become practical in recent years due to improvements in popular web browsers' CSS implementations. Advantages usually associated with the use of style sheet languages are as follows:
Speed
Overall, users experience of a site utilising style sheets will generally be quicker than sites that don