CSS is another one of those abbreviations that you see in and around the software development sphere that you know are related to it however are never sure exactly what it is and why it is used. The aim of this short web entry will hopefully bring you up to speed!
CSS is the abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets which basically describes how HTML will be displayed to the user or in more simpler words, adding fonts and colour to a webpage. It generally saves the developer a lot of time and effort as it controls the layout of a number of webpages at once by defining styles in web pages which includes the design and layout. Dependent on devices (iOS/Android) and screen sizes there are many variations therefore CSS helps to define this as well.
CSS was actually created by the World Wide Web Consortium to solve a huge problem that they had with HTML. Because HTML was never meant to contain tags for the formatting of a web page it caused a huge issue for developers when they tried to add them to the latest version of HTML. This made the process of adding different fonts and colour to large web pages a lot longer than it needed to be therefore wasting time and money! As a result CSS was made with the intention of removing the style formatting from HTML. What’s HTML you ask? Check out my recent blog 'What is...HMTL?'.
A lot of time is saved using CSS as files are usually saved externally in a .css file where a developer can change how a whole webpage looks by changing just one thing in the file. If you think of the file like a house that you want to change the carpet to wooden flooring, instead of removing the carpet, underlay and floorboards you would simply just take up the carpet, level the surface and put the wooden flooring down keeping the original floorboards. This is effectively what CSS has done for web development by streamlining the process which was otherwise quite difficult when trying to use HTML for everything.
Roles that will generally use CSS are software developers which are generally more Front-End. A competent Front-End Developer will be proficient in JavaScript, HTML and CSS with the three going hand-in-hand with one another. In recent years, Front-End Developers have started using modern JavaScript frameworks such a React and Vue which help to further streamline processes of web development.
In the technology recruitment team at The Candidate, we have recruited for Front-End Developers at a variety of clients operating in industries such as e-Commerce, marketing agencies, gaming companies and many more! There has been a huge shift in companies bringing in their own tech teams to build out their technical functionality rather than using an agency as it saves time and money long term. The only issue with this being is that companies don’t usually know where to start which is where the Tech team at The Candidate can help out by advising the best approach! Every day we take phone calls from clients querying how they can go about recruiting for technical roles in terms of salary, skills and resource and we are always able to help them out – even if they don’t end up using our recruitment services! We are here to help therefore if you need any advice, please feel free to reach out to the Tech team who will be happy to help.
Written by Phil Morris - Technology Recruitment Consultant
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