Sometimes I think I have it all figured out and there is nothing new under the sun. Sometimes I'm dead wrong.

For about five years I've been content with HTML (We won't talk about the two years I was content with FrontPage - those were the darkest of the dark ages). In those carefree HTML days the table tag had become an old friend. I needed to place a graphic? Layout a paragraph? Table tag how you doin'?

What a fool I was.

CSS entered my life two months ago, and it was like I was being made anew. The scales fell from my eyes and for the first time I saw the world that was web design. I also couldn't stop waxing poetic.

CSS is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. It stands for Cascading Style Sheets, but it may as well stand for Craptasticlly Super Simple. Granted I haven't delved into the real meat of it yet, but from what I've messed with so far, it seems very straight forward and nicely structured.

I also picked up a handy little reference guide from Amazon called the CSS Cookbook. It's very well put together and looks at CSS from the standpoint of "need and solution". You need to make the first line of paragraph bold? Here's how you do it...

I can dig it.

I still haven't tackled a major site design using only CSS, but I'm really looking forward to it, and Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004 has really focused on CSS this time, making it very easy to code.

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