CSS or HTML??

[Nineteen85]

From a customers point of view?

99% of designers i know prefer CSS, but what about the client?

Would it make the slightest difference to them if their site was coded in CSS or in HTML with tables, etc.

[MetaMan]

i find it the other way around 99% of clients want CSS 1% of designers can do it properly.

i dont see why surfers would care about the different kind of code, they just want content at high speed of a site. and imo CSS is more compressed code thus it loads your content faster.

[mona]

CSS is beneficial with regards to SEO, so the client may care about that. However, from a design perspective, I wouldn't think so...CSS = Less work and mess ups for the designers (dos centavos).

[StuartD]

Uhmm.... CSS is an extension of HTML, not a replacement.
If you are trying to replace one with the other, you don't know it as well as you think you do.

[alexchechs]

CSS is great for both people. But I agree... not many people know how to code it very clean......

[hornycult]

I'm for 50/50 , actually its depends on what type of site you are working on

[Vixenator]

There is no "CSS or HTML", there is HTML with or without CSS since CSS isn't a replacement, it's merely an supplement to HTML.

Maybe it would help your understanding of these things if you started by researching what these letter combination actually stand for?

[Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE]

CSS is HTML....

[HorseShit]

Uhmm.... CSS is an extension of HTML, not a replacement.
If you are trying to replace one with the other, you don't know it as well as you think you do.

[ungratefulninja]

I can only hope they meant tables vs CSS.

[tranza]

Flash. :D

[skrinkladoo]

i find it the other way around 99% of clients want CSS 1% of designers can do it properly.

i dont see why surfers would care about the different kind of code, they just want content at high speed of a site. and imo CSS is more compressed code thus it loads your content faster.

- exactly! I find a healthy mix of the 2 can be solid. Fact is most designers can't really do either. Sad but true.

[mrwilson]

tabless xhtml/css is all i work with.
I refuse to do tables.

[mona]

Also, there is no "one" way to use CSS with HTML...You can also use the CSS codes in the html page header, a .css file and link to it in the HTML page header (i know, basic explanation), you can use CSS and tables...It's like everyone's saying, it's not really an either or...

[skrinkladoo]

There is no "CSS or HTML", there is HTML with or without CSS since CSS isn't a replacement, it's merely an supplement to HTML.

Maybe it would help your understanding of these things if you started by researching what these letter combination actually stand for?

- Historically semi correct. However fast forward to 2008/2009 (today) - its seen by masses to be seperate. Truth: Whatever makes the resume look best ...

CSS - Think Styles
HTML - Think Layout

CSS advanced HTML, and in XHML (the reason i say "semi") the point is more valid.

Regardless of what makes or doesnt make the resume look different, and against the grain of this post - they are different, they are not the same. HTML is not CSS or vice versa - Styles versus Layout.

But no need to argue because they are both low-end ... front-end, dont they teach this stuff in elementary?

[skrinkladoo]

CSS is HTML....

I love the sig, but this quote isnt nearly as intelligent as the brain power it took to put this killer sig up.

[scouser]

by html i take it you mean a layout coded with things like tables, inline styles, <font family... etc type coding. and if so -- using external css files, and no stylying in the html has MANY advantages. (9 times out of 10 - displays better on devices like mobiles etc, smaller file sizes (less b/w, faster load times), slightly better for seo, a lot easier to maintain)

i know some people spend a few hundred extra bucks to get a faster server, but still have like 200-300kb of wasted space in their html of each page. a lot of designers just slice things up in photoshop, so when a 1px wide( or high ) background image could be tiled, they end up using a 300px wide (or high) image. Then another identical (but different file) for the same bit a bit below it etc etc.....

[scouser]

Also, try doing a site JUST with css. lol.

(as others pointed out, its not a case of exclusively css or html. they compliment each other. although of course css isn't required.

[Deej]

Css ftw imo rofl

[Basic_man]

There is no "CSS or HTML", there is HTML with or without CSS since CSS isn't a replacement, it's merely an supplement to HTML.

Maybe it would help your understanding of these things if you started by researching what these letter combination actually stand for?

Got it !

[sysk]

CSS = graceful degradation, better accessibility, better SEO, better maintainability, better portability, better semantics, better W3C standards compliance

Do you need more ?

[Ninja_Pete]

Uhmm.... CSS is an extension of HTML, not a replacement.
If you are trying to replace one with the other, you don't know it as well as you think you do.

LOL. I was thinking the same thing.

[thinkhype]

what he said.

Better off to go fully CSS than with Tables.

[dailyduke]

tableless is the way to go.
How did you not know CSS was a way of styling the code?

[calmlikeabomb]

lol @ html is css.