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CASCADING STYLE SHEETS

The Smith Web site takes advantage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control how pages appear to the viewer. A style sheet is made up of style rules that tell a browser how to present a document. This is a simple mechanism for adding style (fonts, colors and spacing) to Web documents without adding HTML tags. Since Smith's pages are driven by a single style sheet, it is easy to make global changes to the appearance of the site.

One of the main benefits of style sheets is to ensure visual continuity as visitors navigate the site. Printed publications have long known the value of basing products on a single typeface: no matter where you turn in a magazine or a newspaper, the text and basic layout will look the same. Web sites gain the same cohesiveness when all the pages link to the same style sheet.

Smith Web Site: Basic Body Copy Guidelines (PDF)

Smith Web Site: Additional Copy Guidelines (PDF)

 

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