external CSS - not a big issue.
If you think about how a programme would parse a page, you'll quickly realise that one of the first things it will do is get rid of the html code, and all the other bits that are not wanted. Then it will look at what's left - the stuff that's printed on the screen, and it will make evaluations of the words on the page then. That's a general overview, because some html codes are recorded - font sizes, etc.
So when you get down to it, the only valid reason for putting the styles in an external file is so that only one file needs to be changed to alter the same thing throughout the site. That's a good reason to do it.
~Roland
|