The BU Core Design style sheet specifies body fonts, colors, padding, margins,
and many other elements traditionally formatted with HTML. By taking
these elements out of the HTML and putting them in a centralized style
sheet, pages use code more efficiently, load faster,
and font appearance is more consistent sitewide.
Because font and colors are specified in the style sheet, the deprecated <font> tag is no longer used. Background colors, overall page margins,
and link colors/behaviors are also specified in the style sheet, so
these elements have been removed from the <body> tag. These changes also mean style edits and revisions can me made in one central location.
Specialized styles can be created on an as-needed page-by-page basis,
or a set of specialized styles can be attached to a page (or template)
in addition to the main style sheet. For instance, the content navigation
menu you see at right uses a separate style sheet and is only attached
to those pages that use a content navigation menu.
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