Old-school, out-dated table-based websites can prevent your business making progress and signifiantly reduce your visitor numbers. ProAction Networks have recently introduced CSS conversion as a service to provide a new lease of life for those tired, dated looking websites. Website owners who convert from table and non-CSS based layouts can benefit from the following:

Higher Ranking On Internet Search Engines… Search Engines continually ‘crawl’ the internet, soaking up the content from every website out there. When a search engine ‘crawls’ your website, it looks at the source code. Generally, the source code for table based web designs contain an excessive amount of “junk” code, which doesn’t tell the Search Engine anything about the website’s content. The further along your important information is, the lower you will rank on Search Engines. By using CSS you can drastically reduce the amount of source code on your pages and more important information can be moved closer to the top of our source code. This can have an enormously beneficial effect on your Search Engine ranking.

Faster Download Times… CSS-based web pages have considerably less source code than older web pages. Furthermore, the methods by which browsers read and display CSS based web pages is generally quicker and more efficient than with table based page layouts. This means that CSS based websites download quicker than table driven websites. Additionally, with CSS you can build in ‘alternatives’ for devices with slow connections or a small viewing area – making your site visible to those who are connecting through a smartphone, internet tablet, games console or television.

Greater Accessibility Over recent years the amount of hand held Internet compatible devices has grown massively. Along with this there have been a number of lawsuits filed recently against organisations whose websites are not compatible with screen-reading software, as is popular amongst many visually impaired users of the internet. Proper implementation of CSS can make your website display properly across a wide range of devices and is also a good means of ensuring that your company does not fall prey to a compliancy lawsuit.

Printer Friendliness: when a user prints a CSS based web page, an alternative CSS document can be called which removes decorative images and navigation. This helps to ensure that your web sites are printer friendly.

Reduced Bandwidth…CSS-driven web sites have much less code than table driven web pages. Indeed, it is often possible through CSS to reduce the file sizes of web pages by as much as 75%. So, by switching to CSS, your website will
be able to cope with higher volumes of traffic.

Faster Evolution and Website DevelopmentCSS separates content elements of a web page from design elements. This means that by maintaining just one CSS file (which is applied across your entire website) we can easily and effortless make a range of alterations to the appearance of your website, without having to go through the time consuming process of altering individual web pages. This also means that if you decided to opt for a complete redesign in the future, then the entire process could be carried out much quicker and without any great fuss.

If you are interested in having your website converted to CSS, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.

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