So the whole content management part didn’t end up working for my site that I’ve been working on, but I did learn how to make a website using more than 1 cascading style sheet to alternate looks. Because of the variety of ages of my target users for my website, I wanted to provide text large enough for older users, but I didn’t want to design the entire site that way. I wanted to allow the user to easily change the font size of the text on the page for easier readability.

I tried a few techniques before I found one that I settled on. I was very surprised when I researched the subject matter how many people were of the very strict opinion that text size should only be modified through the browser. This does not seem like a very good solution for people who either do not have a mouse with a scroll button (ie, using the ctrl-scroll method of changing font size) or for people who are not very computer savvy. I have witnessed first-hand geriatric computer users who can barely operate a computer mouse at all.

But I digress. I found an excellent article on switching out style sheets for websites to create different looks. This of course could be used for changing font sizes, and I found the solution to be EXTREMELY easy to implement. I have to admit, I was a bit intimidated at first, but after the encouragement of one of my fellow web developers I successfully pulled it off. Here is the article I used to do this technique.
Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets by Paul Sowden