Designing/ developing Websites means you are likely to come across CSS2, 3 or 4, and understanding what this is all about will help to create effective sites that can be viewed across a range of browsers.

CSS – or Cascading Style Sheets – essentially document the layout/ design of a site, similar to the style sheets used to provide technical specifications for printable/ online documents, but with the added function of informing browsers how documents to be viewed should be rendered.

One of the Web’s most powerful design tools, CSS enables designers/ developers to set the precise mood/ tone of sites. A well-written CSS can typically be updated fast and efficient, as well as allowing changes in priorities/ values without requiring changes to underlying XHTML codes.

While CSS can be a little complicated and challenging to learn, it is also fun to learn and certainly well worth the effort. Harnessing the art of CSS offers designers a world of additional options and allows them to do far more than any other form of style sheet.

In addition to a host of excellent tutorials explaining CSS and how to use it in detail, there are also many sites offering hints, tips, code generators and ready to use codes, animations and more. Such sites include, for instance:

CSS3 Generator

Animate.css

CSS3 Click Chart

CSS techniques

Being able to share documents, images and other files among colleagues, friends and family is becoming increasingly important to most Internet users, as is the ability to access and work with/ on files from a variety of devices.

For this reason, services like DropBox have been developed and are rapidly becoming a must for Internet users. Developed in 2007, DropBox is a free service enabling users to store documents, images, music, videos and more on the Web; synchronise them between a range of devices- from desk top computers or laptops to smart phones, tablets, and so on – and share them with others.

Other users can be invited to various folders, or supplied with links to specific files/ folders. In any case, files can be accessed from anywhere and from any device both by the original user and those they intend to share them with.

What’s more, storing the files ‘in the cloud’ offers additional security – if a device crashes, gets lost or stolen, all of the stored information can be easily retrieved from DropBox, meaning potentially huge financial losses due to lost data are a thing of the past.

In a similar way, DropBox also allows users to restore files that were accidentally deleted, making sure mistakes that could previously turn out to be costly are easily remedied. 

Well-written, informative and relevant content is vital for the success of any Website, but not everyone can write effectively. Fortunately, it is possible to find experienced freelance writers who can help to create content for your site that is not only informative, but also easy to read and free from spelling and grammatical errors.

Finding writers is not as difficult as you may imagine. In addition to many writers advertising their services on sites like Craigs-List, Freelancer, elance, purecontent, odesk and many others like them, it is also possible to post jobs on these and many similar sites.

In the latter case, you provide a brief description of the work you require – you could, for example, state that you need writers to create articles/ posts based on financial, technical or medical topics – and a top limit of what you are prepared to pay for completed work.

Writers are then typically invited to bid for available jobs, and the individual/ company seeking writers can then choose the writer they consider to be most suitable for the job at hand from these bidders.

While advertising your jobs on these sites often incurs a small fee, the content provided will invariably enhance your site and subsequently your chance of success, making this typically small expense (as well as the writer’s fee) well worth it.