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Drive Down costs with XHTML and CSS
Over the past few years, there's been a slow and growing trend in the web design industry to create and develop web pages using newer coding technologies such as CSS and XHTML. Understanding these new technologies, and how they can impact your development costs, can help you better contain your overall development budget.
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets, is a relatively old technology (at least old for the internet) and has been around for nearly a decade. The basic premise behind CSS is to separate the design portion of an application from the site content and application logic. It hasn't been until recently that major browser support existed to effectively leverage CSS in web site design.
Cost
Today with modern browser support growing with every new release, developing a site using CSS can offer significant savings in several areas.
One of the primary savings from CSS designs come when you decide to redesign your site. If the site is coded using a CSS methodology, redesign times are typically reduced by over 50% and sometimes as much as 75% or more.
To put that in perspective, consider the following.
A typical dynamic site not using CSS for design, could take up to 50 hours to redesign. That may include template modifications and modifications to the application code. Assuming a typical industry rate of $100 / hour, that's $5,000 on a site redesign.
If the site was coded using CSS for design, you could drive your redesign costs down by over $3,500.
Bandwidth
In addition to cost savings, successful implementation of CSS based design can also significantly reduce your bandwidth for your web site. It is often possible to reduce overall file size on initial page loads by over 50% and on subsequent page loads by over 75% using CSS design.
Consider the following:
A typical web page developed today not using CSS can average around 150KB in size (not including images).
If you have 1,000,000 page views / month, that translates into about 15 Gigabytes of transfer per month (and that doesn't include the images).
Moving to a CSS based design can drop your bandwidth by over 8GB / month. Not bad.
Additionally dial up users, or users with slower internet connections will also reap the benefits of a smaller, leaner site. They could see load times on a page drop from 30 seconds to under 10 seconds.
Contact Us today to see how we can help you. Aphion provides a wide range of web development services including migrating existing sites from a non-CSS based design to a CSS based design. View our portfolio for more information.
* Aphion, in partnership with Hand Spun Digital http://www.handspundigital.com, launches espiralart.com.
Aphion worked in conjunction with Hand Spun Digital to create and program a paypal based e-commerce system for Espiral Art using the creative talents of Hand Spun Digital and Aphion's e-commerce code base.
* Aphion offers special late winter referral special.
Know someone who needs a web site? Let us know about it and you can make some quick cash. Now through March 31, 2006 Aphion is offering a 15% referral fee (up from 10%). For more information visit our web site.
* Aphion Web Design
* A List Apart - Excellent CSS resource
* Billing Orchard - Easy to use online billing / client management tool.
Until next time.
Brandon Carlson
Owner - Aphion Inc.
What is CSS?
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets, is a relatively old technology (at least old for the internet) and has been around for nearly a decade. The basic premise behind CSS is to separate the design portion of an application from the site content and application logic. It hasn't been until recently that major browser support existed to effectively leverage CSS in web site design.
What are the benefits?
Cost
Today with modern browser support growing with every new release, developing a site using CSS can offer significant savings in several areas.
One of the primary savings from CSS designs come when you decide to redesign your site. If the site is coded using a CSS methodology, redesign times are typically reduced by over 50% and sometimes as much as 75% or more.
To put that in perspective, consider the following.
A typical dynamic site not using CSS for design, could take up to 50 hours to redesign. That may include template modifications and modifications to the application code. Assuming a typical industry rate of $100 / hour, that's $5,000 on a site redesign.
If the site was coded using CSS for design, you could drive your redesign costs down by over $3,500.
Bandwidth
In addition to cost savings, successful implementation of CSS based design can also significantly reduce your bandwidth for your web site. It is often possible to reduce overall file size on initial page loads by over 50% and on subsequent page loads by over 75% using CSS design.
Consider the following:
A typical web page developed today not using CSS can average around 150KB in size (not including images).
If you have 1,000,000 page views / month, that translates into about 15 Gigabytes of transfer per month (and that doesn't include the images).
Moving to a CSS based design can drop your bandwidth by over 8GB / month. Not bad.
Additionally dial up users, or users with slower internet connections will also reap the benefits of a smaller, leaner site. They could see load times on a page drop from 30 seconds to under 10 seconds.
How can I make my site a CSS based design site?
Contact Us today to see how we can help you. Aphion provides a wide range of web development services including migrating existing sites from a non-CSS based design to a CSS based design. View our portfolio for more information.
Recent happenings
* Aphion, in partnership with Hand Spun Digital http://www.handspundigital.com, launches espiralart.com.
Aphion worked in conjunction with Hand Spun Digital to create and program a paypal based e-commerce system for Espiral Art using the creative talents of Hand Spun Digital and Aphion's e-commerce code base.
* Aphion offers special late winter referral special.
Know someone who needs a web site? Let us know about it and you can make some quick cash. Now through March 31, 2006 Aphion is offering a 15% referral fee (up from 10%). For more information visit our web site.
Business Quick Links
* Aphion Web Design
* A List Apart - Excellent CSS resource
* Billing Orchard - Easy to use online billing / client management tool.
Until next time.
Brandon Carlson
Owner - Aphion Inc.
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