What is External CSS?
Why Should You Use External Cascading Style Sheets on Your Website?

With External CSS you can easily change color codes, fonts styles and sizes, and other page properties in ONE file and the style sheet changes it throughout your site. It's like magic. And it is simple to understand. Each of our web page templates come with its own custom designed style sheet developed specially for it. Our style sheets are "basic" so that anyone can edit them easily. They are formatted in a way that is easy for a beginner to read and modify. They are also the perfect starting base to teach yourself CSS. If you intend to maintain your own web site, External CSS is a must to learn. If you only get as far as HTML, you will completely regret designing a site with it the very first time you want to change something.

And let's not stop there! Since each template comes with it's own style sheet, you can easily intermix style sheets and/or style "blocks" to extend your template resource even further!

CSS (cascading style sheets) is the professional designers' choice for the development of quality templates. Experienced designers thoroughly know and understand the concept of External CSS. They would never create a web template for a consumer or client without using External CSS as the backbone.

We don't use redundant HTML font and color codes that many new designers use, because its not the most effective way to design a page nor is it considered professional. With External style sheets you have no worries of font tags, color codes and unnecessary HTML tags used throughout your pages. Such extreme and unnecessary tag redundancy will cause your pages to take longer to load and are a nightmare to edit if you ever want to change any cosmetic property. Imagine the work you would entail if you simply wanted to change your font or font color on 5,000 pages because your template designer didn't use "External" CSS.

Why don't more new web designers use it if it is so simple? Because the first step to learning web design is HTML and that is all the further their web design experience and education has taken them thus far. Or they are what we call "Graphic Template Designers" and know very little about effective web design. You can usually quickly spot a Graphic Template Designer because their template collection consists of website template heavily loaded down with unnecessary graphics that leave little room for page content. Lovely layouts, yes; but very ineffective for serious website owners who want to accomplish their online goals. Graphic Template Designers design their colorful layouts to attractively appeal to your "eye-candy" emotions and pay little regard to how much work they are causing you or how ineffective the design will be for the end user. They are simply out to make a quick buck in whatever method works for them. Appealing to someone's emotions is how they manipulate their marketing magic on YOU.

Say good-bye to poorly designed templates (or designs that are excessively FAT with unnecessary graphics) that you will likely never use once you have examined them or spent countless hours trying to manipulate. And say hello to QUALITY and EFFECTIVE designs. You just found BasicTemplates.com! The name might state "Basic", but we are light years ahead of most template designers.

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