Short : New CSS wizard provides more exciting style sheet design possibilities

Full press release : All modern websites must comply with the latest web standards. However, the need for consistent, accessible, SEO friendly sites that display properly on a range of devices and in all browsers has started to breed an Internet full of boring designs.

Worse that this, many website designers have not yet decided to move away from the old design techniques because of the difficulty they find in building even basic websites to these new standards.

The domination and difficulty of building compliant websites using WYSIWYG editors has not made this situation any easier and that is why a radical new approach was adopted for CSS wizard. It draws on the consistency of approach that the new web standards demand and uses this as the building blocks for starting each new website project. Because the vast majority of website can all be grouped into a fairly small range of standard page layouts, CSS wizard offers each of these via a simple selection as the first step of the process.

A clever drag and drop facility then provides a quick and simple way for users to place each part of the website’s content. Afterwards they can select from a wide range of pre-designed style sheets until they find the one that is closest to their requirements. The procedure so far will only have taken a couple of minutes but the majority of the hard work has already been done. Now they can concentrate on making sure the design looks nice, but instead of having to hand code stylesheets, a range of easy to use editors are available to speed things up.

Because CSS Wizard only allows people to modify the main elements of the page design there is less risk of beginners making changes that corrupt the layout. This may limit advanced users in some areas but by completing the vast majority of the work very quickly, those who know how will have plenty more time to concentrate on the fine detail later.

To extend the design possibilities still further CSS wizard comes free with www.straight2web.net and using the two programs together should facilitate far more creativity than is possible with conventional tools.

Firstly Straight2web's Superblogging software allows people to add special automated tags into every design template. These provide a very simple but powerful way of creating exciting designs that alternate throughout every page or section of the website.

Also, both programs are so fast and versatile that users can easily create a number of different website themes in the time it previously took to create only one. A large, content rich site might deliver easy access for everyone and make a very search engine friendly resource while a second low content, but design heavy site can be integrated within this to deliver short clear messages with style. One site can never do both but at least now there is a cost effective way to offer visitors the choice.

Date submitted : June 12, 2007

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