WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2006
Understanding Style Sheets: Why we don't have a font menu
One of the harder things to understand at first for our customers is why there is not a font menu in the Webpage Editor, and how Style Sheets work on our system.Style sheets play a very important role in web design, and are used by virtually every professional web designer and every well made website. The basic idea is to take certain design aspects and put them in one easily editable place that can be used by any page on the website.
In the case we are talking about here, we take text formatting and fonts and put all that information into the style sheet, instead of page by page and line by line throughout your entire website. This makes your website easier to build, more professional in appearance, and easier to change.
When editing a page, you do not have to select a particular font and font size for each thing, remembering what you used on other pages or ending up with inconsistencies that make your website look amature. Instead you leave most of your text the default, and apply styles to certain parts that should be different from the default.
You can apply "Headline" to your first line to make it bigger and bold, you can apply "Small Print" to a paragraph at the bottom which you want smaller than normal, and more. This tells the browser to put that headline in the font and size and format that the style sheet says headlines should be, the same concept for the small print, and everything else to format as the style sheet says the default should be.
You do not have to make the style sheet or know much about their inner workings, because our builder takes care of all of that for you. Each theme has a style sheet attached when you select it, and you can change this at any time by selecting another option in the style sheet control panel.
The amazing thing is that if you want to use style sheet with a larger font, or a different font, you change the style sheet with one click, and every page on your site is instantly updated to the new look. You do not have to go back and edit individual pages, and all of the automatic parts of your site will update to the new look as well.
It might take some getting used to, especially for many of us that have been using word processors one document at a time, but the results are clear. You end up with a better website which you can build and manage more easily, and that is what HybridSites.com is all about.
Posted At 11:11 AM
by Michael