Style Sheet was adopted by W3 in December 1996. It’s the new way to get control of your page. But, writing the script and put it in your document without help from an authoring tool is hard work. For an updated list of Authoring Tools, check the page at W3C. [W3C is The World Wide Web Consortium, the organization that recommends the standards for using HTML.

Style Sheets can be created in many ways. The current Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is what people talk about and it is a standard that is supported by Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape Navigator 4.0. Using Style Sheets you can get better control of your page. CSS properties are: Font, Color and Background, Text, Box, and Classification. As I have seen nowadays, Style Sheets are mostly used for control over text color and font. Check at cnet.com, for some good examples of using Style Sheets.
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What is Style Sheet?

At Rosalab Designs, we have noticed a peculiar business trend surfacing in the post dot-bomb era. Web design companies are receiving solicitations for services under the terms of a pay-for-performance relationship.

The pay-for-performance (PFP) model is not new to the web. It’s increasingly accepted as a model for selling ad space or as an incentive package for companies to perform above a certain fixed margin.

Problems begin when prospects seek pay-for-performance as the sole means of a business transaction, particularly for the web design and search engine optimization industries. The following article addresses the problems with the pay-for-performance model.
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Pay-for-performance and web site design

Try to get to the point on the first page, or at least give people an idea of what your site is about. If people have to go hunting, they may move on.

There is nothing more aggravating than a site that forces you to navigate for ten minutes before even figuring out what they do, let alone offering you the information you’re looking for. Remember, if somebody is visiting your site, they are probably looking for something…try to make it easy for them to find it. Ask yourself what things people might be looking for in general, and try to make those things accessible easily from the main page.
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Design tips: get to the point