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One idea in 1994 saved the look of the web

In the early web, making a page look good meant cramming formatting into the content itself, a fragile and repetitive mess. In 1994, a developer named Hakon Wium Lie proposed Cascading Style Sheets, a way to keep the design in one place and the content in another. It became a web standard, and it's how every site on earth is styled today.

Separating what a page says from how it looks made the whole web easier to build and change.

That principle still guides good work. When design and content are cleanly separated, a site is faster to update, cheaper to maintain, and far less likely to break when you change one thing. It's a big reason our hand-built sites stay easy to care for years after launch.

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