W£C CSS LogoCSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet and is an important element of modern website design and features strongly in the WordPress CMS platform. CSS on its own is not really capable of doing much but when combined within the framework of using html and php coding which is found in wordpress it’s a powerful element in the  wordpress equation. CSS basically styles and formats a website with commands that define where things are placed, how big they are, what colours are to be used and how often a particular item appears on a page and much more. In coding terms it’s easier to learn just like HTML and not as complex as PHP. Normally style sheets are incorporated into the HTML coding of a website or in the case of wordpress it is a separate file that loads independently. With the correct styling using CSS a web page loads much faster than say using the old school design practice of using tables in html and scores higher withe search engines as a result with regard to coding compliance.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.

CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.[1] This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design). CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. While the author of a document typically links that document to a CSS style sheet, readers can use a different style sheet, perhaps one on their own computer, to override the one the author has specified.

CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.

The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Internet media type (MIME type) text/css is registered for use with CSS by RFC 2318 (March 1998).

The popularity of CSS as a design tool has increased steadily and is now regarded as the premier system for website design