We develop websites using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). There are many benefits to a CSS website design.

CSS vs HTML Tables: Speed

• Important information can be placed at the top of the page source code. This allows important information to be processed first.
• CSS information can be stored in an external file used by all pages on your website. This means that layout information is downloaded just once into a browsers cache.
• Less code is required to produce similar results to HTML tables. Less code helps to produce better "content to code ratios" improving search engine positions.
• HTML tables will not be displayed until the whole page has been downloaded. CSS can display page elements before the complete page has been downloaded.
• CSS is read once by the browser, however HTML tables are read twice.

CSS vs HTML Tables: Accessibility

• In CSS, a user's own style sheets can be used to replace website's default. For example visually impaired users may wish to provide different font characteristics.
• CSS allows content to be ordered by importance. This helps screen readers provide users with the important information first.