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Web site development has become a much more vibrant entity in the online world. This is partially due to the fact that droves of people log on to the Internet for the first time on a daily basis, bringing a seemingly endless supply of web site traffic to the various sites that exist throughout the Internet. Additionally, many of these individuals are looking to promote a business or service they provide by employing the marketing potential of a web site. Due to this fact, the demand for web site developers has grown drastically over the past five years. Web site development in general has changed quite a bit over the past decade. Developers would normally rely on the use of HTML properties for web site design. While in fact this programming language is not too intricate, it would make things somewhat difficult for larger web sites, particularly when it came to changing specific aesthetic details. This issue was neutralized with the inception of cascading style sheets, or CSS. CSS provides a way for developers to declare a particular styling aspect for the web site that can affect an array of different areas of the site. The CSS is a file that is separate from the other files for the site that the developer can go into and alter, having the changes reflect across all areas of the site that use that particular styling element. This has made it drastically easier to alter large areas of the web site with a single change to the CSS file as opposed to taking hours to individually change HTML code.  |