CSS turns 10!

his year the World Wide Web Consortium proudly celebrates the ten years of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the technology designers use to create attractive, economical, and flexible Web sites. “The design community has confirmed that using CSS promotes beauty while making it easier and less expensive to build sites, ” said Bert Bos, W3C Style Activity Lead and one of the original co-authors of the specification that became CSS level 1, published on 17 December 1996.

Where would the web be without CSS? Back at 1996, that where! CSS has proven to be one of the most important parts of web design, and is what allows people to be creative and deliver some amazing looking templates. If you are unsure what CSS is, check out CSS Zen Garden for great examples.