5 reasons to redesign with CSS

Publication Date: 2007-01-26

Category: Web Site Design

If your thinking about redesigning your website, read on.

There are many good reasons to move away from table based designs to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and as an advocate of modern Web Design methods I can name many. But luckily for me an article on Web Site redesign with CSS by Linda Bustos lists 5 of the main ones:

1. Branding and Aesthetics;
   CSS designs just fundamentally look better in different environments.
   
2. Usability,
   Faster page loads means less click aways, not everyone has broadband, and here in Cumbria we can often only get lower speed broadband.
   
3. Accessibility
   Tables were not meant for designing pages with, so they read badly to people using non-visual browsers.
   
4. Search Engine readability.
   With CSS you can position the main content near the top so Search Engines read it sooner and more often.
   
5. Bandwidth.
   CSS pages are lighter (smaller file sizes) and use less bandwidth, so you pay less bills and pages are served quicker.
   

The original article can be found here.