Terkin by Design | Your Gateway to Professional Web Solutions

Our Vision for Design

Located in Quebec, Canada, we quite simply, aim to provide the best web solutions for your business. Cutting-edge web technology is our passion, but we never lose sight of the fact that the real point of website development and innovation is to enable our clients to achieve their business objectives.

We continually research new web trends and capabilities, always with a focus on how we can use them to give you a website that stands out and above our competition also to turn your business vision into reality.

Our Customers for Design

We have situated our Website to provide solutions locally and globally to focus on small and medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs who are eager to take advantage of the Internet to launch their businesses, improve their visibility, and maximize their revenues.

We design for our customers by listening to them, we do the research, and create the solutions they need at affordable rates. We are enthusiastic about everything we learn as we listen to your needs and aspirations and develop your web design projects your way.

What are Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?

CSS was first developed in 1997, as a way for Web developers to define the look and feel of their Web pages. It was intended to allow developers to separate content from design so that HTML could perform more of the function that it was originally based on - the markup of content, without worry about the design and layout.

CSS didn't gain in popularity until around 2000, when Web browsers began using more than the basic font and color aspects of CSS. And now, all modern browsers support all of CSS Level 1, most of CSS Level 2, and some aspects of CSS Level 3.

Web Designers that don't use CSS for their design and development of Web sites are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. And it is arguably as important to understand CSS as it is to know HTML - and some would say it was more important to know CSS. Style sheet refers to the document itself. Style sheets have been used for document design for years. They are the technical specifications for a layout, whether print or online.

Print designers use style sheets to insure that their designs are printed exactly to specifications. A style sheet for a Web page serves the same purpose, but with the added functionality of also telling the viewing engine (the Web browser) how to render the document being viewed.

Every Web page is affected by at least one style sheet, even if the Web designer doesn't apply any styles. This style sheet is the user agent style sheet - the default styles that the Web browser will use to display a page if no other instructions are provided. But if the designer provides other instructions, the browser needs to know which instructions have precedence.

Why is CSS Important?

CSS is one of the most powerful tools a Web designer can learn because with it you can affect the entire mood and tone of a Web site. Well written style sheets can be updated quickly and allow sites to change what is prioritized or valued without any changes to the underlying XHTML.

The challenge of CSS is that there is so much to learn. But it doesn't seem like it. After all, there are only around 60 properties in CSS Level 1 and around 70 in CSS Level 2. Compared with the number of HTML tags and attributes to learn, that can feel like a cake walk.

But because CSS can cascade, and combine and browsers interpret the directives differently, CSS is more difficult than plain HTML. But once you start using it, you'll see that harnessing the power of CSS will give you more options and allow you to do more and more things with your Web sites.

If you want to be a professional Web designer, you need to learn Cascading Style Sheets. But luckily, they are fun to learn.

Courtesy of Jennifer Kyrnin