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I think that I am finally — albeit slowly — starting to understand this CSS thing. It's not that I don't understand how style sheets in general work. Those of us who are in print production have been using Quark style sheets since well before they were a twinkle in Bill's eye. It's the code that scares me. I have a shaky grasp of HTML. I firmly believe in using tools such as GoLive (my product of choice, even though it's way overkill for what I do) and saving my frustration for when I really have to tinker under the hood to get something done the way I want it. So, when some guide starts assuming that I have all of the HTML tags at the tips of my fingers and understand exactly what each one does, well, it loses me. And in my now outdated version of GoLive, you have to know what some of this stuff means to be able to work with style sheets, and the help is not all that helpful at explaining what stuff does.

Thanks to the tutorial at W3Schools and some other helpful snippets across the web, I'm starting to get it. They have lots of handy examples that you can actually edit to see how it affects the output, without having to mess with your own pages.

Don't look for any big changes here yet, though. I'm happy to keep using a tweaked default Blogger template until I find the time to get WordPress up and running, and even then my priorties are redoing the outdated, table-based pages for the OSU Cleveland and Hawaii clubs' websites.
- posted by Lori @ 9:39:00 PM | permanent link | |