To start, let’s take a look at what CSS is and why it’s so important to modern web design. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and was introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium in late 1996 with the aim to separate web page content (written copy, images, multimedia, etc.) from presentation (fonts, colors, layout, page structure, etc.). Another chief goal of CSS is to improve and enhance web accessibility. Previous to the introduction of CSS, a web page’s HTML markup defined both content and presentation. (more…)