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It is addressing the question "What are the advantages and disadvantages of separating design from content?"

Feel free to add any text you like here with examples of how you can separate design from content and perhaps links to further information you have found on the web.

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Advantages:

*Consistent;

*More user-friendly;

*Less time consuming;

*General control of the website;

Disadvantages:

*Complex Layouts

One of the major disadvantages of separating style and content is that complex layouts can be difficult to create. Many pages include multiple columns or heading bars, which are typically created with HTML tables. (The W3C recommends that HTML tables only be used to display tabular data.) For users inexperienced in writing CSS, these layouts can be difficult to recreate. Additionally, many browsers render certain CSS rules differently than others, meaning that a layout which looks correct in one browser may be quite broken in another.

*Slower work without the parsing and generation tools

While CSS - based documents can be easily generated and parsed automatically, defining styles separately makes the document more difficult to read and write without the software tools. In some cases (for example, in the source code comments) the HTML code must be easy to write and read, and CSS is less frequently used.

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