Sliced and Coded

if you think that instead of every tag you could use class="mytext" i think you can answer yourself ...

as a fact ... In Macromedia flash ... the action script makes the movie much bigger than the vector graphics use in it. same with html and css i guess.

Yes. You can make people download one CSS file, which is then cached on their computer and used for every other page on your site without having to download it all again. That way they are only downloading the content for each page, rather than the content and all the formatting instructions every time, even though the site is the same on all pages.

It makes things less redundant.

Instead of having:


< font size="1" color="#eeeeee" ....... more code here>Paragraph text< /font>< br>

For every paragraph, you make one rule in CSS like this:

p {
font: 11px/1.5 Verdana, Trebuchet, Lucida, Arial, sans-serif;
}

Then for all your paragraphs, you just do this:

< p>paragraph text throught entire site here< /p>



And there are other techniques to save even more markup and download time.

Plus most of the time you don't even have to use classes.

You can use contextual selectors instead (I think that's what their called, could be wrong)

then you have a div like this:

< div id="navbar">
< ul>
< li>home< /li>
< li>services< /li>
< li>products< /li>
< li>directions< /li>
< li>contact us< /li>
< /ul>
< /div>

Then you can make a thing like this:

#navbar li {
rules for navbar go here
}

That makes the browser only apply those certain rules to < li> tags that are inside a div or table with ID navbar. Any < li> tags outside of that div or table will be have like normal, or you can use CSS to make them completely different as well, depending on what div or table they are nested in.

u'r right deker. css is great and make your pages load faster and look much better because they will always have unity in style

Where is the best place to find out more about css?

http://www.w3.org/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565926226/qid=1057103794/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-7644392-8151802?v=glance&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735712018/qid=1057103816/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-7644392-8151802?v=glance&s=books

That whole thing sounded like an infomercial o_o

But yeah, thats cool, i'll look more into it

It was an infomercial...
One where deker tries to make you do better stuff.

Looks like I started somethin, when I mentioned css. :p I will look into it more to see how it works. I have tested my site in Opera, Netscape, and IE. So far it works in all resolutions as well, even 640x480. I went over to a friends house with a dial-up connection and it loaded pretty fast on her puter too. If I change the things suggested, it should just pop up on the screen with hardly any load time at all. I hope, anyway. Thank you all for your help! I am learning so much from you guys. :D


*Edit* Really stupid spelling error.

If there were infomercials about web design, perhaps most web sites would not suck so much. But there aren't, so we have to make informative posts in forums instead.