What types of things can you do with CSS? More than you can possibly imagine!
Designers new to coding might assume that most elements in a webpage are created using graphic editing software, but the gurus over at 1st Web Designer or Onextrapixel will tell you that anything you can create in a design program like Fireworks or Illustrator, a great coder can recreate with the wonders of CSS3.
The best part about this is, new scripting languages are making it easier and easier for novice coders to make clean, readable and attractive websites.
For example, HTML5 simplifies commonly complicated design elements like tables using modifiers like <section> </section> and getting rid of unnecessary closing tags. CSS3 allows for greater customization of divs, the backbone of modern webpages.
When I first started designing websites in High School, most of the fun clean looking elements that are common in websites today were made using graphic editors. Want corners on that table? Better create a background image with corners! Oh, and don’t forget to manually design the size and shape of each table, copying the code directly into the <table> and <td> tags.
Now with CSS, you can simply create design standards for every table in your webpage, modifying one slice of code without combing through the entirety of your *.html file. HTML5 is now catching up with this shift in design and coding simplification.
It will be interesting to see what designers create without having to rely on a separate code guy or gal in-between.
-Doni
