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CSS stands for cascading style sheets and it is the best thing ever invented for a web designer.  What CSS does is separate the content from the design. That sounds like a real wacky concept but it’s actually pretty cool. What it does is make a designers life easier by allowing you to update the design without altering the content. In the old days, about 8 years ago, everything was designed in tables. Imagine using a giant Excel spreadsheet to layout everything…images, text, forms…etc. Imagine having to use this Excel Spreadsheet to keep everything aligned and orderly. That’s what people did with HTML tables in early Dreamweaver and Front Page. With Tables, you had to edit EVERY page on your website and at times, alter your content to make it look right and this took hours and hours. Now with CSS, you can wrap some content in a simple tag and if you adjust the properties of the tag on the style sheet, all incidents of the tag’s use will be updated immediately. This is especially great for sites with several pages because doing every page at a time is very very very time consuming.